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Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT) User Guide: Software v1.4

Gilletly, Samuel D.; Jones, Katherine A.; Bandlow, Alisa; Arguello, Bryan; Gearhart, Jared L.; Quiroz, Jimmy E.; Eddy, John P.

The MDT is a decision support software that can provide the information needed to identify optimal microgrid designs in the early stages of the design process. MDT searches the trade space of alternative microgrid designs in terms of user-defined objectives, such as performance, reliability, and cost. It produces a Pareto frontier of solutions embodying the efficient tradeoffs amongst multiple user-defined objectives.