08-01-2016, 04:55 AM
There is a need to take care when naming scenarios, particularly if the batch function in VFE is being used.
In the UK model, a demand scenario file we were using was was labelled 'refscenario_deccv1.1-central2100'
Now if this was used in a single model run, the following dd file was generated - 'refscenario_deccv1.1-central2100.dd'
If the same case was run in batch mode, the following dd files were generated - 'refscenario_deccv1.dd' and '1-central2100.dd'. Neither of these dd files have any data in them, so the demand levels across the model time horizon are the same as those in the base year. No error messages are generated.
The solution is of course not to use '.' in scenario file names!