Energy carriers¶

An energy carrier is any substance or medium that contains energy and can be converted, stored, or delivered — a gaseous or solid fuel, an electric charge, thermal energy, solar irradiance, and so on. You provide the energy carriers that are used throughout the rest of the model. For parameters, see Energy carrier parameters.

For every stage, hub, energy carrier, and time step, the following energy balance is applied:

Where t is the time step.