Sensitivity Studies

Sensitivity Studies are a way of testing your scenario's tolerance for changes in base assumptions. It will generate a copy of your scenario with the selected changes for comparison. To create a sensitivity study, navigate to the Scenarios page and select the scenario you wish to study. Once in the Scenario, select "Run a Sensitivity Study" at the bottom of the panel on the left.

Creating a Study

New Scenario Name

The title for your study. The Sensitivity Study will create a new scenario based on the one you are in; by default, it will inherit the name of the scenario it's based on.

Parameters

Here you select which parameters of the current scenario to change and what they will change to, the example above alters the cleaning cost of the array and the capital cost of that array.

The table below gives an outline of the options you can change in a sensitivity study.

Parameter	Usage
Project Length	Adjusts the length of the Scenario in years
Project Start Year	Adjusts the starting year of the Scenario
Process Heat	Adjusts the heat demand value if your model uses a static value for heat demand
Tax Rate	Adjusts the Tax Rate
Inflation Rate	Adjusts the Inflation Rate
DCF Discount Rate	Adjusts the DCF Discount Rate
Asset Entry	Adjusts the Asset Entry
Loan Amount	Adjusts the Loan Amount
Loan Term	Adjusts the Loan Term
Loan Interest	Adjusts the Loan Interest
Profit Loss Entry	Adjusts the value of a Profit Loss Entry
Operation Criteria	Adjusts the Set point for a given Operation criteria