2023 PVPMC – Mendrisio, Switzerland

2023 European PVPMC Workshop

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Day 1: Wednesday November 8, 2023

2023 European PVPMC Program (6798 downloads )
Joshua SteinSandia National Laboratories

1. PV Yield Assessment and Uncertainty

The Importance of Terrain-Shading Losses in PV Yield Assessment (3987 downloads ) Kyle SeymourClean Power Research
Uncertainty in Annual Yield: Conceptual Approaches and Implementation in SAM (3378 downloads ) Clifford HansenSandia National Laboratories
Analysis and Reduction of Uncertainties in Yield Assessments of Large-Scale Bifacial PV Projects (3783 downloads ) Anne Sophie FreunekBayWa.r.e
Uncertainties of module tilt and orientation, distance between rows and albedo on photovoltaic performance modeling (3927 downloads ) Kathrine AlvinoMines Paris

2. Performance Analysis

Introducing the Baseline Performance Reference (3833 downloads ) Anton DriessePV Performance Labs
In-Situ Module IV Measurement for PV System Performance Monitoring & Control (3414 downloads ) Bill StueveAtonometrics
Collecting datasets of PV power stations for performance analysis (3547 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 (3613 downloads ) Georgios TziolisUniversity of Cyprus
Data-driven predictive analytics & system monitoring workflows for streamlined utility-scale photovoltaic power plant failure diagnosis (3480 downloads ) Juergen SutterluetiGartner Instruments

3. PV Tracking

Enhancing Accuracy in Bifacial Photovoltaic Performance Modeling under Dual Axis Tracking Constraints (3828 downloads ) Vivek BalaniEnertis Applus+
Diffuse Optimization: Strategy To Enhance Photovoltaic Yield In Tracked Systems (3894 downloads ) Maddalena BrunoFraunhofer ISE
Analyzing the optimal orientation of single-and dual-axis tracking PV systems (3553 downloads ) Youri BlomTU Delft
Evaluation of horizontal single-axis solar tracker algorithms in terms of energy production and operational performance (3604 downloads ) Gregorio OlivaresCENER
Joshua SteinSandia National Laboratories

4. PV Applications

Offshore Floating PV DC and AC Yield Analysis Considering Wave Effects (3542 downloads ) Alba Alcañiz MoyaTU Delft
Modelling and Validating Heat Transfer Effects in Floating PV Installations (3529 downloads ) Monica NicolaFraunhofer ISE
A new thermal model for ground and offshore PV installations (3762 downloads ) Lukas DvoncSolargis
Case study of power mismatch of a bifacial PV canopy using ray-tracing model with improved sampling method (3530 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 (3820 downloads ) Liwenbo ZhangUniversity of Nottingham
All-in-one tool for module design and analysis (3533 downloads ) Fahradin MujoviCSEM
BIM to emulate BIPV Digital Twin (3470 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 (3591 downloads ) Lluvia OchoaTotalEnergies
Standardized Information Models as a base for Digital Twins (3782 downloads ) Christian SchillFraunhofer ISE
Loss Decomposition in Utility Scale Plants with 3E Solar Analytics (3636 downloads ) Maitheli Nikham3E

7. PV Modeling Topics

Recent improvements in accuracy and interactivity of satellite-derived irradiance data, and associated validations (3555 downloads ) Michael FoleySolcast
Simulation of POA front irradiance sensor mounting position (3858 downloads ) Marc KorevaarOTT Hydromet
Impact of albedo variations and sensor positions on rear irradiance for bifacial power plants (3498 downloads ) Marie Syre WiigIFE
Dynamic thermal models with the Filter-EWM-MBE (FEM) correction approach (3794 downloads ) Bert HerteleerKU Leuven
EY of Colored Perovskite BIPVs and Partial Shading Analysis (3498 downloads ) Daniele BragaFluxim

8. PVPMC Activities

Feedback on the PVPMC blind modeling exercise of 2021 (3812 downloads ) Bruno WittmerPVsyst
2023 PVPMC blind modeling comparison (3538 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 (3302 downloads )