Electrical Infrastructure

When the Use Electrical Infrastructure setting has been ticked on in Settings > Configuration Options, the power and cable requirements of agents and electric trucks are able to be modelled on the Schedule > Calendar tab.

Substations

When Peak Power as a Constraint has been selected under the Substations setup step, a new input field will be added to the Calendar. This will restrict the number of electric agents that can be connected to the substation at a single time.

For example, if the substation can only supply 5000 kW, then 2 agents requiring 3500 kW will not be able to operate within that area.

Slack Factor & Cable Reporting

Slack Factor is used to adjust the calculated cable length to consider uneven ground and cable not running in perfectly straight lines. Agent trailing cables are removed from the total length when reporting required cable length.