2023 PVPMC – Salt Lake City

2023 16th PV Performance Modeling Workshop
Salt Lake City, Utah USA

Note that video recordings are only available for some of the presentations.

Day 1: Tuesday May 9, 2023

Welcome to the 2023 PVPMC (5759 downloads ) Joshua SteinSandia National Laboratories

1. Solar Resource Assessment

Rethinking Typical Year Data Modeling for Solar Energy Application (6066 downloads ) Aron HabteNREL
QC Flagging of Shading in Ground Measurements of Solar Irradiance (5788 downloads ) Alex BryanGroundWork Renewables
Strategies for Rear Irradiance Monitoring in Tracked Bifacial Systems (5820 downloads ) Nicholas Riedel-LyngskærEuropean Energy
Quality assessment of global tilted irradiance by automatic and manual procedures (6092 downloads ) Marketa Hulik JansovaSolargisRecording Link
An Update on New Capabilities in the NSRDB (6009 downloads ) Manajit SenguptaNREL

2. PV Capacity Testing

PV Plant Underperformance from a Lab, Field and Modeling Perspective (5828 downloads ) Jim CrimminsCFV LabsRecording Link
pvcaptest Updates and Ongoing Work (5703 downloads ) Ben TaylorTailored Data ConsultingRecording Link
Modern PV Plant Capacity (Performance) Testing from an EPC’s Perspective (5906 downloads ) Adam KankiewiczBlack & VeatchRecording Link
Outboard Pyranometer Bifacial Capacity Testing (5695 downloads ) Jeff NewmillerDNVRecording Link

3. Posters (Files will be posted as they are received)

Expansion of Common Measure-Correlate-Predict Analysis Considerations: Effects of Period of Record Extension and Model Diversification (5735 downloads ) Lucila TafurUL Solutions
Solargis PV Components Catalogue (5706 downloads ) Martin OpatovskySolargis
Accounting for sub-hourly irradiance fluctuations in hourly performance simulations (5787 downloads ) Michele OliosiPVsyst
Monte Carlo simulation for comparison of single axis tracking and east west mounting systems (5659 downloads ) Phillip HamerUniversity of New South Wales
A Model for Estimating Snow Albedo Changes Due to Time and Temperature (6263 downloads ) Daniel RileySandia National Laboratories
Modeling Estimated Sub-Hourly Clipping Losses (5706 downloads ) Paul WolffersdorffEDF Renewables
Seasonal and weather dependency of the spectral influence on PV performance (5724 downloads ) Rajiv Daxini*University of Nottingham
PV Validation Hub (5635 downloads ) Bennet MeyersStanford University
FirstSolar Irradiance Shade Losses on Sloped Terrain (6006 downloads ) Mark MikofskiDNV
Maximum String Length Determination Using the New Voltage Pro Application (5632 downloads ) Jason SpokesTerabase
Solar Panel Cleaning: The First Step in NextGen PV Soiling Mitigation (5926 downloads ) Carla DawsonSoilar Technologies
Uncertainty quantification of PV annual energy estimates in the System Advisor Model (5946 downloads ) Matthew Prilliman*National Renewable Energy Laboratory
A Continuous Form of the Perez Diffuse Sky Model for Forward and Reverse Transposition (5778 downloads ) Anton DriessePV Perfromance Labs
Don’t .PANic: Investigating the effects of PVsyst .PAN file variability (6000 downloads ) Sara MacAlpinejuwi
A Modeling Framework for Technology-specific Shading Impacts on Annual Energy Yield (5798 downloads ) Kiran BalasubramanianMaxeon Solar Technologies
Poster award winners (left to right: Matthew Prilliman, Sara MacAlpine, and Rajiv Daxini
Poster award winners (left to right: Matthew Prilliman, Sara MacAlpine, and Rajiv Daxini

4. Innovations in PV System Monitoring

Applications of in-situ I-V measurement (6099 downloads ) Michael GosteinAtonometricsRecording Link
Derivation and Applications of Filtered Temperature-Corrected Performance Ratio for Diagnosis of Under-performing Power Plants (5946 downloads ) Samantha WilsonPowerFactorsRecording Link
A Golden Dataset to Enable Automatic Photovoltaic Fault Detection Processes (5962 downloads ) Scott SheppardTurbine LogicRecording Link

5. Modeling Tools and Software Updates

Updates and improvements in the latest PVsyst versions (6105 downloads ) Bruno WittmerPVsystRecording Link
Validation of PVcase Yield - A yield simulation software based on 3D PV plant digital twins (6231 downloads ) Andres CalcabriniPVcaseRecording Link
Recent and Planned Improvements to the System Advisor Model (SAM) (5997 downloads ) Nate BlairNRELRecording Link
PlantPredict: Model and Software Updates (6015 downloads ) Kurt RheeTerabaseRecording Link
pvlib 2023 update: pvlib-python, pvanalytics, twoaxistracking (5118 downloads ) Clifford HansenSandia National Laboratories
SolarOPS: A versatile PV system simulation software (6125 downloads ) Antonios FlorakisTotalEnergiesRecording Link
Energy yield modeling using the pvDesign software (6029 downloads ) Félix Ignacio Pérez CicalaRatedPowerRecording Link
Workshop dinner
Workshop dinner

Day 2: Wednesday August 24, 2022

6. PV System Modeling

Impacts of Albedo Estimation Method on Energy Estimates (5990 downloads ) Halley DarlingUL SolutionsRecording Link
A Model for Efficient Shading Evaluation in Large-Scale PV Plants Based in Hemicube Geometry (6239 downloads ) Anja NeubertDNV
Differences between advanced and conventional models in bifacial yield simulations (6035 downloads ) Keith McIntoshPV LighthouseRecording Link
PV Expected Energy Modeling (6073 downloads ) Will HobbsSouthern CompanyRecording Link
Getting more useful information from modelling of iv curves and matrix measurements (6393 downloads ) Steve RansomeSRCL

7. PV Data Analysis and Analytics

Comparison of Open-Source Photovoltaic Performance Models Against Multi-Year Field Data (5975 downloads ) Lelia DevilleUniversity of Louisiana / Sandia National Laboratories
DNV’s Solar Energy Assessment Validation using SolarFarmer (6064 downloads ) Madison GhizDNVRecording Link
Announcements of Model Validation Comparisons and RFI (5970 downloads ) Marios Theristis, Cliff Hansen, and Tassos Golnas*Sandia National Laboratories and *US Department of Energy

8. Bifacial PV

Using CAD Output Files to Compute Terrain Losses in PVsyst (5988 downloads ) Laura HinkelmanBlack & VeatchRecording Link
Effects of subhourly modeling on three dimensional near shading losses and terrain-aware backtracking gains (5938 downloads ) Josh WirthDaly EnergyRecording Link
Modeling Transposition for Single Axis Trackers Using Terrain Aware Backtracking Strategies (6003 downloads ) Jenya Meydbray & Kurt RheeNevadosRecording Link
PV Panel Variability Effects using PVLib (6048 downloads ) Mike AndersonErthosRecording Link
Final Perspectives from PVPMC 2023 (5971 downloads ) Joshua SteinSandia National Laboratories
pvlib-python tutorial participants at the 2023 PVPMC workshop
pvlib-python tutorial participants at the 2023 PVPMC workshop

pvlib-python User Group Meeting

2023 User’s group: pvlib python and pvanalytics (6025 downloads ) Clifford HansenSandia National Laboratories