In the annual simulation, the daily model was run 24 times (see Section 2.1); twice for each month (weekday and weekend day) with the appropriate electricity demand and environmental input parameters for each run.
The operating pressures, solar circuit and ORC flow-rates were set to the maximum power settings determined in Section 3.3, with the solar fluid flow to the water cylinder set to zero.
The results from the annual simulation, including a life-cycle cost analysis, are presented in Table 3.