Incomplete consumption & discharge events

[val-ismaili]

When an appliance consumption or discharge event crosses over midnight, if the user has specified to only simulate one day, this consumption and discharge remains incomplete and is just cut off. A feature called spillover is proposed that allows the user to optionally flag that they would like this consumption / discharge event to be looped back into the start of the day. The justification is that diurnal patterns are important and users likely carry out their uses at the same point each day.

To summarise the possible scenarios and proposed approach:

• Single day sim: Optional flag to run spillover resulting in consumption and discharge flows past midnight being looped to start of the day. Default is just cutoff as current.
• Multiple day sim: Consumption and discharge events continue into the next day. Optional flag to run spillover only applies to the final day in the sim which will loop it into the first day of the sim.

A challenge here is what if an event for that appliance is already sampled within the timestamps of the spillover shifted event?