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 (15605 downloads ) | Kees Van Der Bos | Hukseflux |
| Online apps for solar prospecting: New challenges and industry needs (16617 downloads ) | Artur Skoczek | Solargis |
| Comparison of remote- and ground- based albedo measurement for solar resource assessment (14630 downloads ) | Patrick Keelin | Clean Power Research |
| Evaluations Mars Optical Soiling Sensor (14700 downloads ) | Michael Gostein | Atonometrics |
2. PV Module Characterization
| Deriving Thermal Response Coefficients for PVSyst (14251 downloads ) | Ben Bourne | SunPower |
| Incident Angle Modifier (IAM) Round Robin Updates (14585 downloads ) | Nick Riedel | Technical University of Denmark |
| Making the Most of Module Matrix Measurements (14414 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 (14649 downloads ) | Joseph Walters | University of Central Florida |
3. PV Performance Model Updates
| Recent and Planned Improvements to the System Advisor Model (SAM) (8254 downloads ) | Janine Freeman | National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| Strategies for Electrical Shading Modeling with PlantPredict (8187 downloads ) | Alex Stark | First Solar |
| Finite Element Thermal Analysis Supporting a Transient Moving-Average Module Temperature Prediction Model (14050 downloads ) | Matthew Prilliman | Arizona State University / Sandia |
| MLPE Performance Modeling - Module Level Power Electronics (14517 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. (8350 downloads ) | Patrick Brown | MIT |
| Early Life PV System Degradation Evaluation and Modeling Based on Cumulative Exposure to Environmental Stressors (14663 downloads ) | Birk Jones | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Best-Practices in PV Plant Performance Degradation Benchmarking (14717 downloads ) | Daniel Fregosi | EPRI |
| Impact of PV Module Degradation Rate on Utility Scale Systems (15029 downloads ) | Sara MacAlpine | juwi |
| Fleet-scale PV Performance Analytics (14889 downloads ) | Michael Deceglie | National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
Day 2: Wednesday May 15, 2019
5. Bifacial PV Performance Modeling
| Best Practices for Bifacial Energy Modeling (14428 downloads ) | Peter Johnson | UL |
| Optimization of Back Reflectors for Bifacial Photovoltaic Modules (15290 downloads ) | Pedro Martin | Arizona State University |
| SolarFarmer Bifacial Modeling (8553 downloads ) | Mark Mikofski | DNV-GL |
| The subtle art of bifacial performance modeling (12838 downloads ) | Silvana Ayala Pelaez | National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| The effect of non-uniform illumination on bifacial tracking modules: a simulation study (8877 downloads ) | Keith Mcintosh | PV Lighthouse |
| Solar PV Performance and New Technologies in Northern Latitude Regions (8368 downloads ) | Joshua S. Stein | Sandia National Laboratories |
6. PV System Monitoring
| PV Module Monitoring Equipment with Optimized Sampling, Filtering, and Time-Response Characteristics (8264 downloads ) | James Richards | CFV Solar Laboratory |
| Advanced PV performance analysis on modules and power plants using cloud-based processing (16376 downloads ) | Juergen Sutterlueti | Gantner Instruments |
| Performance evaluation of PV power predictive models for real-time monitoring (8118 downloads ) | Marios Theristis | University of Cyprus |
| How Monitoring Services of Distributed Solar PV Production Benefits from Machine Learning (14647 downloads ) | Daniel Lassahn | Meteocontrol |
7. Open Source Software Updates
| captest - Open Source package for Reproducible Performance Testing (14907 downloads ) | Ben Taylor & Jessica Forbess | Exyte Energy & Sunshine Analytics |
| PVFree! - NREL-SAM Component Database, PVLIB API, and Interactive PV Modeling Tutorial (8051 downloads ) | Mark Mikofski | |
| Open Software for Solar Power: Update (14391 downloads ) | Daniel Riley and Cliff Hansen | Sandia National Laboratories |