2023 PVPMC – Mendrisio, Switzerland

2023 European PVPMC Workshop

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Day 1: Wednesday November 8, 2023

2023 European PVPMC Program (6651 downloads)
Joshua SteinSandia National Laboratories

1. PV Yield Assessment and Uncertainty

The Importance of Terrain-Shading Losses in PV Yield Assessment (3849 downloads) Kyle SeymourClean Power Research
Uncertainty in Annual Yield: Conceptual Approaches and Implementation in SAM (3251 downloads) Clifford HansenSandia National Laboratories
Analysis and Reduction of Uncertainties in Yield Assessments of Large-Scale Bifacial PV Projects (3650 downloads) Anne Sophie FreunekBayWa.r.e
Uncertainties of module tilt and orientation, distance between rows and albedo on photovoltaic performance modeling (3789 downloads) Kathrine AlvinoMines Paris

2. Performance Analysis

Introducing the Baseline Performance Reference (3700 downloads) Anton DriessePV Performance Labs
In-Situ Module IV Measurement for PV System Performance Monitoring & Control (3276 downloads) Bill StueveAtonometrics
Collecting datasets of PV power stations for performance analysis (3418 downloads) Claudia BuerhopForschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based decisionmaking and modular approach to support photovoltaic (PV) plant diagnosis using image processing with electrical data analysis and advanced reporting and geovisualization (3482 downloads) Georgios TziolisUniversity of Cyprus
Data-driven predictive analytics & system monitoring workflows for streamlined utility-scale photovoltaic power plant failure diagnosis (3352 downloads) Juergen SutterluetiGartner Instruments

3. PV Tracking

Enhancing Accuracy in Bifacial Photovoltaic Performance Modeling under Dual Axis Tracking Constraints (3694 downloads) Vivek BalaniEnertis Applus+
Diffuse Optimization: Strategy To Enhance Photovoltaic Yield In Tracked Systems (3745 downloads) Maddalena BrunoFraunhofer ISE
Analyzing the optimal orientation of single-and dual-axis tracking PV systems (3415 downloads) Youri BlomTU Delft
Evaluation of horizontal single-axis solar tracker algorithms in terms of energy production and operational performance (3467 downloads) Gregorio OlivaresCENER
Joshua SteinSandia National Laboratories

4. PV Applications

Offshore Floating PV DC and AC Yield Analysis Considering Wave Effects (3408 downloads) Alba Alcañiz MoyaTU Delft
Modelling and Validating Heat Transfer Effects in Floating PV Installations (3391 downloads) Monica NicolaFraunhofer ISE
A new thermal model for ground and offshore PV installations (3622 downloads) Lukas DvoncSolargis
Case study of power mismatch of a bifacial PV canopy using ray-tracing model with improved sampling method (3388 downloads) Wang ShuoTurku University of Applied Sciences

5. Tools and Applications

Brian MirletzNREL
Advanced multimodal fusion method for very shortterm solar irradiance forecasting using sky images and meteorological data: from single weather array to multi array (3682 downloads) Liwenbo ZhangUniversity of Nottingham
All-in-one tool for module design and analysis (3395 downloads) Fahradin MujoviCSEM
BIM to emulate BIPV Digital Twin (3335 downloads) Philippe AlamyEnerBIM
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Day 2: Thursday November 9, 2023

6. PV Digitalization

Towards a Digital Twin: strategy and research for the PV industry (3460 downloads) Lluvia OchoaTotalEnergies
Standardized Information Models as a base for Digital Twins (3651 downloads) Christian SchillFraunhofer ISE
Loss Decomposition in Utility Scale Plants with 3E Solar Analytics (3497 downloads) Maitheli Nikham3E

7. PV Modeling Topics

Recent improvements in accuracy and interactivity of satellite-derived irradiance data, and associated validations (3414 downloads) Michael FoleySolcast
Simulation of POA front irradiance sensor mounting position (3716 downloads) Marc KorevaarOTT Hydromet
Impact of albedo variations and sensor positions on rear irradiance for bifacial power plants (3355 downloads) Marie Syre WiigIFE
Dynamic thermal models with the Filter-EWM-MBE (FEM) correction approach (3664 downloads) Bert HerteleerKU Leuven
EY of Colored Perovskite BIPVs and Partial Shading Analysis (3359 downloads) Daniele BragaFluxim

8. PVPMC Activities

Feedback on the PVPMC blind modeling exercise of 2021 (3675 downloads) Bruno WittmerPVsyst
2023 PVPMC blind modeling comparison (3404 downloads) Marios TheristisSandia National Laboratories
Joshua SteinSandia National Laboratories
pvlib-python tutorial participants working on challenge problems
pvlib-python tutorial participants working on challenge problems

pvlib-python Tutorial

pvlib 2023 update: pvlib-python, pvanalytics, twoaxistracking (3167 downloads)