Terminology
See "mandatory consumption". Describes a load placed on the network by a technology which, depending on the network conditions, may or may not be met. Conditional consumption may be limited by the available local production ("excess"), by the capacity limits of transformers, or both.
A network node which has no children. Typically these represent low-voltage transformers, or collections of households and office buildings. Endpoints will normally have one or more technologies attached which produce or consume energy.
a.k.a. "leaf node".
A frame describes a point-in-time for which we calculate the loads in a network. Most networks contain 35,040 frames; one for each 15 minutes in the year.
a.k.a. "time-step", "time step", "point".
A topology with technologies assigned to endpoints constitutes a "Local Energy Scenario". These networks have loads placed on them by the technologies, with the flows through the graph determined by Moses.
a.k.a. "testing ground".
Energy produced within the LES, typically by solar PV panels.
See "conditional consumption". Describes a load placed on the network by a technology which must be met. These loads ignore all network constraints, and energy to fulfil them will be taken from the grid if there is insufficient local production.
See "local production". Energy arising outside of the LES. This comes from the electricity "grid", via the top-most ("head") node.
