2023 16th PV Performance Modeling Workshop

Salt Lake City, Utah USA

 

Day 1: Tuesday May 9, 2023

Welcome to the 2023 PVPMC (39 downloads)

Joshua Stein

Sandia National Laboratories

1. Solar Resource Assessment

	Rethinking Typical Year Data Modeling for Solar Energy Application (70 downloads)	Aron Habte	NREL
	QC Flagging of Shading in Ground Measurements of Solar Irradiance (53 downloads)	Alex Bryan	GroundWork Renewables
	Strategies for Rear Irradiance Monitoring in Tracked Bifacial Systems (64 downloads)	Nicholas Riedel-Lyngskær	European Energy
	Quality assessment of global tilted irradiance by automatic and manual procedures (48 downloads)	Marketa Hulik Jansova	Solargis
	An Update on New Capabilities in the NSRDB (51 downloads)	Manajit Sengupta	NREL

2. PV Capacity Testing

	PV Plant Underperformance from a Lab, Field and Modeling Perspective (58 downloads)	Jim Crimmins	CFV Labs
	pvcaptest Updates and Ongoing Work (37 downloads)	Ben Taylor	Tailored Data Consulting
	Modern PV Plant Capacity (Performance) Testing from an EPC’s Perspective (48 downloads)	Adam Kankiewicz	Black & Veatch
	Outboard Pyranometer Bifacial Capacity Testing (53 downloads)	Jeff Newmiller	DNV

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 (46 downloads)	Lucila Tafur	UL Solutions
	Solargis PV Components Catalogue (28 downloads)	Martin Opatovsky	Solargis
	Accounting for sub-hourly irradiance fluctuations in hourly performance simulations (52 downloads)	Michele Oliosi	PVsyst
	Monte Carlo simulation for comparison of single axis tracking and east west mounting systems (31 downloads)	Phillip Hamer	University of New South Wales
	A Model for Estimating Snow Albedo Changes Due to Time and Temperature (45 downloads)	Daniel Riley	Sandia National Laboratories
	Modeling Estimated Sub-Hourly Clipping Losses (42 downloads)	Paul Wolffersdorff	EDF Renewables
	Seasonal and weather dependency of the spectral influence on PV performance (37 downloads)	Rajiv Daxini*	University of Nottingham
	PV Validation Hub (41 downloads)	Bennet Meyers	Stanford University
	FirstSolar Irradiance Shade Losses on Sloped Terrain (46 downloads)	Mark Mikofski	DNV
	Maximum String Length Determination Using the New Voltage Pro Application (33 downloads)	Jason Spokes	Terabase
	Solar Panel Cleaning: The First Step in NextGen PV Soiling Mitigation (28 downloads)	Carla Dawson	NextGen PV Soiling Mitigation
	Uncertainty quantification of PV annual energy estimates in the System Advisor Model (33 downloads)	Matthew Prilliman*	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
	A Continuous Form of the Perez Diffuse Sky Model for Forward and Reverse Transposition (36 downloads)	Anton Driesse	PV Perfromance Labs

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 (43 downloads)	Michael Gostein	Atonometrics
	Derivation and Applications of Filtered Temperature-Corrected Performance Ratio for Diagnosis of Under-performing Power Plants (58 downloads)	Samantha Wilson	PowerFactors
	A Golden Dataset to Enable Automatic Photovoltaic Fault Detection Processes (41 downloads)	Scott Sheppard	Turbine Logic

5. Modeling Tools and Software Updates

	Updates and improvements in the latest PVsyst versions (48 downloads)	Bruno Wittmer	PVsyst
	Validation of PVcase Yield - A yield simulation software based on 3D PV plant digital twins (39 downloads)	Andres Calcabrini	PVcase
	Recent and Planned Improvements to the System Advisor Model (SAM) (46 downloads)	Nate Blair	NREL
	PlantPredict: Model and Software Updates (0 downloads)	Kurt Rhee	Terabase
		Clifford Hansen	Sandia National Laboratories
	SolarOPS: A versatile PV system simulation software (54 downloads)	Antonios Florakis	TotalEnergies
	Energy yield modeling using the pvDesign software (56 downloads)	Félix Ignacio Pérez Cicala	RatedPower

Day 2: Wednesday August 24, 2022

6. PV System Modeling

	Impacts of Albedo Estimation Method on Energy Estimates (42 downloads)	Halley Darling	UL Solutions
	A Model for Efficient Shading Evaluation in Large-Scale PV Plants Based in Hemicube Geometry (49 downloads)	Anja Neubert	DNV
	Differences between advanced and conventional models in bifacial yield simulations (52 downloads)	Keith McIntosh	PV Lighthouse
	PV Expected Energy Modeling (41 downloads)	Will Hobbs	Southern Company
	Getting more useful information from modelling of iv curves and matrix measurements (45 downloads)	Steve Ransome	SRCL

7. Model Validation Studies

	Comparison of Open-Source Photovoltaic Performance Models Against Multi-Year Field Data (48 downloads)	Lelia Deville	University of Louisiana / Sandia National Laboratories
	DNV’s Solar Energy Assessment Validation using SolarFarmer (42 downloads)	Madison Ghiz	DNV
	Announcements of Model Validation Comparisons and RFI (42 downloads)	Marios Theristis, Cliff Hansen, and Tassos Golnas*	Sandia National Laboratories and *US Department of Energy

8. PV Tracking on Sloped Terrain

	Using CAD Output Files to Compute Terrain Losses in PVsyst (66 downloads)	Laura Hinkelman	Black & Veatch
	Effects of subhourly modeling on three dimensional near shading losses and terrain-aware backtracking gains (50 downloads)	Josh Wirth	Daly Energy
	Modeling Transposition for Single Axis Trackers Using Terrain Aware Backtracking Strategies (59 downloads)	Jenya Meydbray & Kurt Rhee	Nevados
	PV Panel Variability Effects using PVLib (85 downloads)	Mike Anderson	Erthos
	Final Perspectives from PVPMC 2023 (48 downloads)	Joshua Stein	Sandia National Laboratories

pvlib-python tutorial participants at the 2023 PVPMC workshop