Posts tagged pvlib

Animation of two-axis tracker shading

In this blog post I’ll show how to create an animation demonstrating self-shading of a two-axis tracker within a solar collector field.

gif demonstrating shading during one day

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Summary of Google Summer of Code with pvlib

The coding period of this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is officially over, and it’s time to take a step back and evaluate the experience. For those of you who might not know, I’ve been working on extending pvlib’s iotools for the past 10 weeks, which I described in this blog post.

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pvlib - a one-stop source for solar resource data

This title at least represents the aim of my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project that I will be completing during the next 10 weeks. In short, I’ll be extending pvlib python’s current iotools functionalities to provide users with easy and standardized access to all major open-source solar resource databases. gsoc and pvlib logo

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