Albuquerque, New Mexico
Day 1: Tuesday May 14, 2019
Keynote Address: Sarah Cottrell Propst, Cabinet Secretary of New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Resources |
1. Solar Resource Data and Modeling
Latest Developments in Solar Irradiance Measurement (744 downloads) | Kees Van Der Bos | Hukseflux | |
Online apps for solar prospecting: New challenges and industry needs (726 downloads) | Artur Skoczek | Solargis | |
Comparison of remote- and ground- based albedo measurement for solar resource assessment (703 downloads) | Patrick Keelin | Clean Power Research | |
Evaluations Mars Optical Soiling Sensor (636 downloads) | Michael Gostein | Atonometrics |
2. PV Module Characterization
Deriving Thermal Response Coefficients for PVSyst (644 downloads) | Ben Bourne | SunPower | |
Incident Angle Modifier (IAM) Round Robin Updates (1020 downloads) | Nick Riedel | Technical University of Denmark | |
Making the Most of Module Matrix Measurements (527 downloads) | Anton Driesse | PV Performance Labs | |
Experimental Methods to Replicate Power Loss of PV Modules in the Field for the Purpose of Fault Detection Algorithm Development (551 downloads) | Joseph Walters | University of Central Florida |
3. PV Performance Model Updates
Recent and Planned Improvements to the System Advisor Model (SAM) (617 downloads) | Janine Freeman | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | |
Strategies for Electrical Shading Modeling with PlantPredict (533 downloads) | Alex Stark | First Solar | |
Finite Element Thermal Analysis Supporting a Transient Moving-Average Module Temperature Prediction Model (515 downloads) | Matthew Prilliman | Arizona State University / Sandia | |
MLPE Performance Modeling - Module Level Power Electronics (627 downloads) | Chetan Chaudhari | SunPower |
4. PV Performance Standards and Studies
Spatial, Temporal, and Technological Variation in the Value of Solar Power across the U.S. (500 downloads) | Patrick Brown | MIT | |
Early Life PV System Degradation Evaluation and Modeling Based on Cumulative Exposure to Environmental Stressors (578 downloads) | Birk Jones | Sandia National Laboratories | |
Best-Practices in PV Plant Performance Degradation Benchmarking (615 downloads) | Daniel Fregosi | EPRI | |
Impact of PV Module Degradation Rate on Utility Scale Systems (634 downloads) | Sara MacAlpine | juwi | |
Fleet-scale PV Performance Analytics (699 downloads) | Michael Deceglie | National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
Day 2: Wednesday May 15, 2019
5. Bifacial PV Performance Modeling
Best Practices for Bifacial Energy Modeling (721 downloads) | Peter Johnson | UL | |
Optimization of Back Reflectors for Bifacial Photovoltaic Modules (748 downloads) | Pedro Martin | Arizona State University | |
SolarFarmer Bifacial Modeling (649 downloads) | Mark Mikofski | DNV-GL | |
The subtle art of bifacial performance modeling (1651 downloads) | Silvana Ayala Pelaez | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | |
The effect of non-uniform illumination on bifacial tracking modules: a simulation study (948 downloads) | Keith Mcintosh | PV Lighthouse | |
Solar PV Performance and New Technologies in Northern Latitude Regions (608 downloads) | Joshua S. Stein | Sandia National Laboratories |
6. PV System Monitoring
PV Module Monitoring Equipment with Optimized Sampling, Filtering, and Time-Response Characteristics (582 downloads) | James Richards | CFV Solar Laboratory | |
Advanced PV performance analysis on modules and power plants using cloud-based processing (823 downloads) | Juergen Sutterlueti | Gantner Instruments | |
Performance evaluation of PV power predictive models for real-time monitoring (593 downloads) | Marios Theristis | University of Cyprus | |
How Monitoring Services of Distributed Solar PV Production Benefits from Machine Learning (550 downloads) | Daniel Lassahn | Meteocontrol |
7. Open Source Software Updates
captest - Open Source package for Reproducible Performance Testing (878 downloads) | Ben Taylor & Jessica Forbess | Exyte Energy & Sunshine Analytics | |
PVFree! - NREL-SAM Component Database, PVLIB API, and Interactive PV Modeling Tutorial (545 downloads) | Mark Mikofski | ||
Open Software for Solar Power : Update (504 downloads) | Daniel Riley and Cliff Hansen | Sandia National Laboratories |
Poster Presentations
Slido Questions:
2019 PV Systems Symposium Slido Questions (416 downloads)