2016 PVPMC – Santa Clara

Monday May 9, 2016

Welcome and Introduction Welcome and Introduction (2932 downloads)

Joshua Stein

Sandia National Laboratories

Solar Resource Data Sources and Uncertainty

Chaired by Clifford Hansen, Sandia National Laboratories

Importance of Input Data and Uncertainty Associated with Tuning Satellite to Ground Solar Irradiation	Adam Kankiewicz	Clean Power Research
Advancements in SolarGIS Global Solar Resource Database	Artur Skoczek	GeoModel
Serial Correlation in Solar Resource Data and Overconfidence	Mark Handschy	Solar Retina
Smart Solar Field Instrumentation for Development of Site-Specific Irradiance to Power Models	Joseph Cuiffi	Florida Gulf Coast University
Multi-Year Time Series versus TMY for Utility-Scale PV Prospecting Using Historic Market Power Value	Jonathan O. Allen	Allen Analytics

PV Performance Modeling

Chaired by Aron Dobos, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

The Future of Transposition Models: From Isotropic Approximation to Physics Models	Yu Xie	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Effects of Spectrum on CdTe and c-Si PV Modules	Mitchell Lee	First Solar
An Alternative to Air Mass Modifier Models (2896 downloads)	Matthew Lave	Sandia National Laboratories
CIGS Performance Analysis (2890 downloads)	Bruce King	Sandia National Laboratories

PV Modeling Tools Update

Chaired by Joshua Stein, Sandia National Laboratories

Update on New Features in PVsyst	Bruno Wittmer	PVSyst
Recent and Planned Improvements to the System Advisor Model (SAM)	Aron Dobos	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Using SAM to Model Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage	Nicholas DiOrio	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Design and Development of an Open-Source Simulation Tool for Grid-Connected PV Systems at Canadian Solar	Didier Thevenard	Canadian Solar
Solar Forecasting Requirements for Ubiquitous Solar	Tassos Golnas	U.S. DOE

Modeling Challenges for Bifacial PV Technologies

Chaired by Daniel Riley, Sandia National Laboratories

Methods and Conditions for Rating Bifacial PV Modules	Bill Marion	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Annual Bifacial Energy Yield Best-Fit Model	Jose Castillo-Aguilella	Prism Solar Technologies
Irradiance Modeling for Bifacial PV (2914 downloads)	Clifford Hansen	Sandia National Laboratories

Performance Modeling During Operations

Chaired by Joshua Stein, Sandia National Laboratories

PV System Loss Factor Performance Analysis	Stephen Voss	Panasonic Eco Solutions
Evaluation of Regression-based Models for Production Estimate True Up of Operational Projects	Boyd Pro	Black & Veatch
Using Plane-of-Array Irradiance Data in PV Modeling	Janine Freeman	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Open Source Machine Learning Applied to PV Monitoring Applications Open Source Machine Learning Applied to PV Monitoring Applications (2854 downloads)	Joshua Stein	Sandia National Laboratories