UNIT_COMMITMENT
Commitment of a homogeneous generating fleet against forecast plus reserve, honouring minimum run and minimum down times.
When to use it
Use UNIT_COMMITMENT when a microgrid has several interchangeable generating units and something must decide how many of them are online — enough to carry the forecast with its reserve margin, without starting and stopping machines faster than they can stand.
Interface
The published port signature. This is the whole of what the block exposes to your program — the implementation body is not shown here and ships with the download.
Inputs
| Port | Type | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| ENABLE | BOOL | — |
| FORECAST_KW | REAL | kW |
| FORECAST_OK | BOOL | — |
| ONLINE_CAP | REAL | kW |
| RESERVE_PCT | REAL | % |
| MIN_RUN | TIME | — |
| MIN_DOWN | TIME | — |
| UNIT_KW | REAL | kW |
| N_UNITS | USINT | — |
| STOP_HYST_KW | REAL | kW |
| SHORT_TMO | TIME | — |
| ACK | BOOL | — |
Outputs
| Port | Type | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| UNIT_SEL | USINT | — |
| START_REQ | BOOL | — |
| STOP_REQ | BOOL | — |
| UNITS_ONLINE | USINT | — |
| CAP_MARGIN_KW | REAL | kW |
| REQ_CAP_KW | REAL | kW |
| HOLD_MIN_RUN | BOOL | — |
| HOLD_MIN_DOWN | BOOL | — |
| ALM_CAP_SHORT | BOOL | — |
| ALM_FCST_FAULT | BOOL | — |
| ALM_CFG_ERR | BOOL | — |
Supervised control write
UNIT_COMMITMENT commands a real actuator. It is written to sit underneath your own interlock, permissive and protection logic — not to replace it. Commission it as you would any control block you wrote yourself.
Validation evidence
- Tests
- 9
- Simulated scans
- 122
- Simulator
- v0.1.0
Complete IEC 61131-3 implementation with a published test suite that runs on the vplant simulator. The counts above are that suite, executed on this build.
- Conforms to IEC 61131-3
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