Examples include lighting, radio, and TV loads. Deferrable load must be met within some time period, but the exact timing is not important so the power system has some flexibility as to when the load is served. Examples include water pumping, ice making, and battery charging loads. Different months can have different daily load profiles, and weekends can be different from weekdays. Randomness can be added to the daily profiles to make the load data more realistic.
Deferrable load is specified monthly.
Of course if you have measured hourly data, you can use them. Cost information is input in a spreadsheet, so you can specify as many rows as necessary to describe how the component's cost varies with its size. In the PV input window shown below, for example, the cost of a 3 kW array is slightly less per kW than that of a 1 kW array. The wind turbine input window is shown below. In the diesel input window shown below, a sensitivity analysis is being specified for the Fuel Price variable.