PV Performance Modeling Collaborative

Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525.

The Importance of Data Quality for Reducing the Uncertainty of Site-Adapted Solar Resource Datasets (146 downloads)	Patrick Keelin	Clean Power Research
The National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB): Recent Updates, New Developments and Status in 2022 (102 downloads)	Manajit Sengupta	NREL
Solar ground measurements processing by automatic and manual tools (121 downloads)	Jozef Dudzak	Solargis
Worldwide Benchmark of Modeled Solar Surface Irradiance (169 downloads)	Adam Jensen	Technical University of Denmark

The “Fresnel Equations” for Diffuse radiation on Inclined photovoltaic Surfaces (FEDIS) (91 downloads)	Yu Xie	NREL
Improved Heat Transfer Correlation for Large Scale Solar PV Convection Modeling (96 downloads)	Raul Bayoan Cal	Portland State University
The influence of system-level design elements on convective cooling in PV solar farms (Pending peer-reviewed publication)	Brooke Stanislawski	NREL
Modeling Electrical Shading Effects in PVsyst (119 downloads)	Michele Oliosi	PVsyst	Recording link

A Photovoltaic Power Prediction Approach Enhanced by Feature Engineering and Stacked Machine Learning Model (54 downloads)	Ibtihal Ait Abdelmoula	SIRC/LAGeS-EHTP, Hassania School of Public Works
Improving Analysis Methods for IEC 61853 Matrix Measurements (115 downloads)	Steve Ransome	SRCL
Angular Response Correction Factors for Comparing PV Reference Cells and Thermopile Pyranometers (80 downloads)	Michael Gostein	Atonometrics
Load-matching renewable plus storage system modeling in NREL SAM (2021.12.2r2) (90 downloads)	Will Hobbs	Southern Company
Distribution Function Instead of Steady-State Assumption in Time-Series Simulation (79 downloads)	Andy Walker	NREL
Hourly Modeling Corrections for PV Energy Assessments (96 downloads)	Madison Ghiz	DNV
Overview of the Best Practices and Standards Development for the Collection and Use of Solar Resource Data for Solar Energy Applications (85 downloads)	Aron Habte	NREL
The WRF-Solar Ensemble Prediction System: Development, Test, and Validation (73 downloads)	Manajit Sengupta	NREL
Technoeconomic Analysis of changing PV System Layout and Convection Heat Transfer (67 downloads)	Matthew Prilliman	NREL
The Triple-C Method for Correctly Simulating PV Clipping Loss (106 downloads)	Tim Townsend	P.E. Davis, CA
How to Check if your PV System is Measuring Up to Expectations (88 downloads)	Kenneth Sauer	VDE
Using Machine Learning for Predictive Modeling of Weather Impacts on Utility-scale Photovoltaic Systems (61 downloads)	Hector Mendoza	Sandia National Laboratories
Classification Method to Predict the Effect of Short-Term Inverter Saturation on PV Performance Modeling (66 downloads)	Jonathan Allen	Allen Analytics LLC
Recent Improvements in PV+Battery Modeling in NREL’s System Advisor Model (58 downloads)	Brian Mirletz	NREL
A General Bifacial Photovoltaic Device Method to Predict System Performance with Albedo (63 downloads)	Erin Tonita	University of Ottawa
Conductive Cooling of Solar Photovoltaic Modules in Unperturbed Atmospheric Conditions (53 downloads)	Jace Davis	University of Utah
Evaluating PV Field Grounding Performance with Simulations for Lightning Transient Energy (62 downloads)	Steven Weber	DEHN
Existing Field Performance Models Cannot Describe Perovskite Modules (55 downloads)	Michael Deceglie	NREL
Fault Detection and Location on Photovoltaic Systems Using Spread Spectrum Time Domain Reflectometry (SSTDR) (46 downloads)	Cynthia Furse	University of Utah
Advanced Solar PV Energy Pre-Construction Losses: Losses due to uneven terrain, tracker wind stowing, and sub-hourly clipping error (52 downloads)	Halley Darling	UL
Estimating Subhourly Clipping from Hourly Data: A Simplified Approach (58 downloads)	Allison Mueller	Avangrid Renewables

PV Performance Modeling with PVfit: Workflows that balance cost, complexity, and accuracy (87 downloads)	Mark Campanelli	Intelligent Measurement Systems LLC	Recording link
pvlib python 2022 Update (109 downloads)	Kevin Anderson	NREL	Recording link
Solecito: A Software Library for the Detailed Simulation of Photovoltaic Arrays (100 downloads)	Martin Herrerias Azcue	University of Stuttgart	Recording link

Automating the Solar Resource and Production Assessment (106 downloads)	Annalise Miller	Avangrid Renewables	Recording link
Updates and Improvements in the Latest PVsyst Versions (124 downloads)	Bruno Wittmer	PVsyst	Recording link
Recent and Planned Improvements to the System Advisor Model (SAM) (87 downloads)	Janine Keith	NREL	Recording link
DALY Next Generation Solar + Storage Modeling Software (91 downloads)	Josh Wirth	Daly Energy	Recording link

2022 PVPMC Workshop

2022 15th PV Performance Modeling Workshop

Salt Lake City, Utah USA

Day 1: Tuesday August 23, 2022

1. Solar Resource Data and Modeling

2. Submodel Development

3. Posters

4. Modeling Tools and Software Updates (Part 1)

5. Modeling Tools and Software Updates (Part 2)

Day 2: Wednesday August 24, 2022

6. PV Tracking and Snow

7. PV Data Analysis and Analytics

8. Bifacial PV