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To command Simulator to turn all units onto automatic generation control (AGC) for which it reads a cost data record, check the first checkbox. This box has the rather lengthy label "If a unit for which a cost curve is read is not on AGC, Simulator should set it on AGC." In other words, if a cost curve is read for a particular generator, that generator will be set on AGC if this box is checked.
Cross-compound is a generator architecture sporting a single boiler and two turbines, one operating at high pressure and the other operating at low pressure. The existence of cross-compound units may complicate the modeling of generator cost characteristics, because sources for this information tend to describe the cost associated with the tandem, whereas Simulator’s economic dispatch will try to dispatch the two parts of the cross-compound unit as two separate units. To address this problem, Simulator gives you the option to lump the properties of the high- and low-pressure turbines into a single unit. It consolidates the two components by adding together their maximum MW outputs, minimum MW outputs, and present output levels, assigning these quantities to one of the units, and setting the other unit off AGC and at 0 MW of output. To have Simulator perform this function for you, check the box in the Cross Compound Units panel.
To tell Simulator how to identify units that belong to the same cross-compound generator, click the box labeled "How To Identify…". This will open the How to Identify Cross-Compound Units dialog.