2023 16th PV Performance Modeling Workshop
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Note that video recordings are only available for some of the presentations.
Day 1: Tuesday May 9, 2023
| Welcome to the 2023 PVPMC (4673 downloads) | Joshua Stein | Sandia National Laboratories |
1. Solar Resource Assessment
| Rethinking Typical Year Data Modeling for Solar Energy Application (4954 downloads) | Aron Habte | NREL | |
| QC Flagging of Shading in Ground Measurements of Solar Irradiance (4881 downloads) | Alex Bryan | GroundWork Renewables | |
| Strategies for Rear Irradiance Monitoring in Tracked Bifacial Systems (4944 downloads) | Nicholas Riedel-Lyngskær | European Energy | |
| Quality assessment of global tilted irradiance by automatic and manual procedures (5215 downloads) | Marketa Hulik Jansova | Solargis | Recording Link |
| An Update on New Capabilities in the NSRDB (5121 downloads) | Manajit Sengupta | NREL |
2. PV Capacity Testing
| PV Plant Underperformance from a Lab, Field and Modeling Perspective (4914 downloads) | Jim Crimmins | CFV Labs | Recording Link |
| pvcaptest Updates and Ongoing Work (4802 downloads) | Ben Taylor | Tailored Data Consulting | Recording Link |
| Modern PV Plant Capacity (Performance) Testing from an EPC’s Perspective (4982 downloads) | Adam Kankiewicz | Black & Veatch | Recording Link |
| Outboard Pyranometer Bifacial Capacity Testing (4915 downloads) | Jeff Newmiller | DNV | Recording Link |
3. Posters (Files will be posted as they are received)
4. Innovations in PV System Monitoring
| Applications of in-situ I-V measurement (5188 downloads) | Michael Gostein | Atonometrics | Recording Link |
| Derivation and Applications of Filtered Temperature-Corrected Performance Ratio for Diagnosis of Under-performing Power Plants (5055 downloads) | Samantha Wilson | PowerFactors | Recording Link |
| A Golden Dataset to Enable Automatic Photovoltaic Fault Detection Processes (5067 downloads) | Scott Sheppard | Turbine Logic | Recording Link |
5. Modeling Tools and Software Updates
| Updates and improvements in the latest PVsyst versions (5180 downloads) | Bruno Wittmer | PVsyst | Recording Link |
| Validation of PVcase Yield - A yield simulation software based on 3D PV plant digital twins (5271 downloads) | Andres Calcabrini | PVcase | Recording Link |
| Recent and Planned Improvements to the System Advisor Model (SAM) (5083 downloads) | Nate Blair | NREL | Recording Link |
| PlantPredict: Model and Software Updates (5093 downloads) | Kurt Rhee | Terabase | Recording Link |
| pvlib 2023 update: pvlib-python, pvanalytics, twoaxistracking (4225 downloads) | Clifford Hansen | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| SolarOPS: A versatile PV system simulation software (5222 downloads) | Antonios Florakis | TotalEnergies | Recording Link |
| Energy yield modeling using the pvDesign software (5131 downloads) | Félix Ignacio Pérez Cicala | RatedPower | Recording Link |
Day 2: Wednesday August 24, 2022
6. PV System Modeling
| Impacts of Albedo Estimation Method on Energy Estimates (5086 downloads) | Halley Darling | UL Solutions | Recording Link |
| A Model for Efficient Shading Evaluation in Large-Scale PV Plants Based in Hemicube Geometry (5236 downloads) | Anja Neubert | DNV | |
| Differences between advanced and conventional models in bifacial yield simulations (5131 downloads) | Keith McIntosh | PV Lighthouse | Recording Link |
| PV Expected Energy Modeling (5189 downloads) | Will Hobbs | Southern Company | Recording Link |
| Getting more useful information from modelling of iv curves and matrix measurements (5329 downloads) | Steve Ransome | SRCL |
7. PV Data Analysis and Analytics
| Comparison of Open-Source Photovoltaic Performance Models Against Multi-Year Field Data (5044 downloads) | Lelia Deville | University of Louisiana / Sandia National Laboratories | |
| DNV’s Solar Energy Assessment Validation using SolarFarmer (5138 downloads) | Madison Ghiz | DNV | Recording Link |
| Announcements of Model Validation Comparisons and RFI (5064 downloads) | Marios Theristis, Cliff Hansen, and Tassos Golnas* | Sandia National Laboratories and *US Department of Energy |
8. Bifacial PV
| Using CAD Output Files to Compute Terrain Losses in PVsyst (5093 downloads) | Laura Hinkelman | Black & Veatch | Recording Link |
| Effects of subhourly modeling on three dimensional near shading losses and terrain-aware backtracking gains (5028 downloads) | Josh Wirth | Daly Energy | Recording Link |
| Modeling Transposition for Single Axis Trackers Using Terrain Aware Backtracking Strategies (5079 downloads) | Jenya Meydbray & Kurt Rhee | Nevados | Recording Link |
| PV Panel Variability Effects using PVLib (5138 downloads) | Mike Anderson | Erthos | Recording Link |
| Final Perspectives from PVPMC 2023 (5057 downloads) | Joshua Stein | Sandia National Laboratories |
pvlib-python User Group Meeting
| 2023 User’s group: pvlib python and pvanalytics (5134 downloads) | Clifford Hansen | Sandia National Laboratories |