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Tools
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These helper functions provide additional functionality for working with specific models.


Resource Tools
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These can be accessed via **import PySAM.ResourceTools**

These functions help with solar resource, wind resource and utility rate data, downloads and formatting.
See how to download solar resource data from the National Solar Radiation Database or wind resource data from the WindToolKit.
Use resource files directly in your PySAM models or input them as dictionaries.

Please see an example of FetchResource `here <https://github.com/NREL/pysam/blob/master/Examples/FetchResourceFileExample.py>`_

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Battery Tools
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These can be accessed via **import PySAM.BatteryTools**

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