2024 18th PV Performance Modeling Workshop
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
Day 1: Tuesday May 7, 2024
1. Complexities in PV Modeling
| Tracking Higher Electricity Prices (2020 downloads) | Adam Jensen | Technical University of Denmark | |
| 2023 PVPMC Blind Modeling Comparison Update (2127 downloads) | Lelia Deville | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Modeling hybrid PV/CSP/ES systems for 100% Carbon Free Electricity to Load (1959 downloads) | Jennifer Braid | Sandia National Laboratories |
2. Site and Design Impacts and Derates
| Building an Advanced Soiling Loss Model with AI and Ground-Level Data (1689 downloads) | Catlin Mattheis | Fracsun | |
| Energy Impact of Different Solar Tracker Wind Stow Strategies (2027 downloads) | Kendra Conrad | Array Technologies | |
| An approach to modeling linear and non-linear self-shading losses with pvlib (1995 downloads) | Will Hobbs | Southern Company | |
| An Updated Modeling Framework for Technology and Market Specific Shading Impacts on Annual Energy Yield (2026 downloads) | Kiran Balasubramanian | Maxeon Solar Technologies | |
| Near Shading Reduction of Diffuse Sky Irradiance and the Impact on PV Plant Performance (2041 downloads) | Adam Kankiewicz | Origis Energy |
3. Posters (posters will be added as they are received)
4. Modeling Snow Effects on PV Systems
| Modeling the Performance of PV Systems in Northern Latitudes (1684 downloads) | Laurie Burnham | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| ERA5 vs. NOAA in Calculated Snow Losses for PV (2001 downloads) | Usgal Zandanbal | DNV | |
| Accurate Modeling of Albedo in Winter: Snow is an Ever-Changing Substrate (1932 downloads) | Daniel Riley | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Observations Snow Shedding from Single-Axis Tracking PV Systems, Implications for Resource Adequacy (1995 downloads) | Ana Dyreson | Michigan Technical University | |
| RTC Michigan Experiments - Bifacial and Module Orientation Snow Loss Modeling (1566 downloads) | Norman Jost | Sandia National Laboratories |
5. PVPMC Activities
| Sandia’s PV Performance Modeling Project Priorities for FY25-27 (1915 downloads) | Marios Theristis | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| PV Atlas: charting a course to geographic insights for PV performance modeling (2029 downloads) | Kevin Anderson | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| DOE Solar PV Data and Modeling Initiatives (1919 downloads) | Noreen Gentry | DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office |
Day 2: Wednesday May 8, 2024
6. Underperformance and Analytics for PV Plants
| Outcomes of Actual Environment Demonstration of Fault Diagnostic Loss Factors and Trend-Beased Loss Predictive Maintenance for Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Systems (1884 downloads) | Jürgen Sutterlüti | Gartner Instruments | |
| A Practical Approach to Comparing Actual and Budgeted Production of Solar Sites: Solar Waterfall Analysis (2000 downloads) | Anjie Jiang | Univers | |
| Estimation of Soiling Loss in Utility-Scale PV Plants from Production Data (2028 downloads) | Karel De Brabandere | 3E | |
| Evaluating PV Power Plant DC Performance (2004 downloads) | Jim Crimmins | CFV Labs | |
| Advancing Technoeconomic Modeling of Hail Risk and Resilience (1853 downloads) | Jon Previtali and Bodo Littmann | VDE Americas |
7. P90 and the Financial Value of Accurate Modelling
| P90 and the financial value of accurate modelling (2026 downloads) | Keith McIntosh | PV Lighthouse | |
| Financier’s View on Solar Uncertainty Analysis (2207 downloads) | Ken Elser | Wells Fargo | |
| P90 and the Financial Value of Accurate Modeling - Independent Engineer’s Perspective (2055 downloads) | Mark Reusser | ICF | |
| P90 Impacts for Long-term Operators (1923 downloads) | Emily Greeno | Avangrid | |
| Accurate Modeling Value to IPP (2062 downloads) | Armando Solis | Lightsource BP | |
| Uncertainty in P90 of Energy Yield (1962 downloads) | Clifford Hansen | Sandia National Laboratories |
8. Solar Resource Assessment
| New Capabilities in the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) (1907 downloads) | Manajit Sengupta | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | |
| Improving Performance Ratio Calculations by Optimizing Front POA Irradiance Sensor Position (2007 downloads) | Damon Nitzel | OTT HydroMet | |
| Introducing an Improved SolarAnywhere® Historical Irradiance Product (1949 downloads) | Marc Perez | Clean Power Research | |
| How much weather and resource data is enough? (1952 downloads) | Laura Hinkelman | Black & Veatch | |
| What to Consider for Improved Accuracy and Reduced Uncertainty in Resource Measurement Campaigns (1836 downloads) | Annalise Miller | Luminate LLC | |
| Gap-Filling Ground Measurements of Solar Irradiance (1941 downloads) | Alex Bryan | GroundWork Renewables |
9. Open Source Software and Applications
| Solar Data Tools Version 1 Release, Features, Applications, and Future Work (1927 downloads) | Bennet Meyers | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | |
| RdTools 3.0 (1773 downloads) | Michael Deceglie | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | |
| Enterprise wide pvlib Implementation (1894 downloads) | Ishtiza Azad and Andrew deRussy | Southern Company | |
| The “PVLib” of Degradation: PVDEG (1907 downloads) | Michael Kempe | National Renewable Energy Laboratory | |
| A Uniform Taxonomy for PV System Operations and Maintenance Data (2193 downloads) | Clifford Hansen | Sandia National Laboratories |
Day 3: Thursday May 9, 2024
10. Spectral Modeling
| Module losses due to cell-level EQE variation (1906 downloads) | Rajiv Daxini | University of Nottingham | |
| Simple Photovoltaic Spectral Correction Model Based on FARMS-NIT Modeled Spectra (1905 downloads) | Alan Curran | First Solar | |
| The Uncertainty in Yield Forecasts Due to the Ever-Changing Solar Spectrum (1882 downloads) | Keith McIntosh | PV Lighthouse |
11. Modeling Updates from Industry
| Modeling of Advanced Solar Tracking Algorithms with PVcase Yield (2003 downloads) | Andres Calcabrini | PVcase | |
| Updates in the Upcoming PVsyst Versions (2023 downloads) | Michele Oliosi | PVsyst SA | |
| Progress and Lessons Learned in the Development of the 3D Energy Yield Calculation Model (1945 downloads) | Félix Ignacio Pérez Cicala | RatedPower | |
| Tackling the Terrain: Custom Tracking Algorithms in Solar PV Plants on Complex Terrain (2081 downloads) | Javier Lopez-Lorente | DNV | |
| Interpolation Strategies for 3D Shading (1924 downloads) | Kurt Rhee | Terabase Energy |
12. O&M Harmonization
| Clifford Hansen and Marios Theristis | Sandia National Laboratories |
Parallel Sessions
| pvlib python: Updates and Users Group Meeting (2008 downloads) | Kevin Anderson & Adam Jensen | Sandia & DTU | |
| Recent and Planned Improvements to the System Advisor Model (SAM) (1952 downloads) | Brian Mirletz & Matthew Prilliman | NREL | |
| pvcaptest Training Session (1902 downloads) | Ben Taylor | Tailored Data Consulting | |
| Getting Started with PVfit (1948 downloads) | Mark Campanelli | Intelligent Measurement Systems LLC |