/pv_soiling

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pv_soiling

DEPRICATED

This repository is depricated. The most up to date implimentation of the stochastic rate and recovery method is available in RdTools (https://github.com/NREL/rdtools)

Summary

Michael Deceglie michael.deceglie@nrel.gov

Code for extracting soiling loss from PV plant data according to the stochastic rate and recovery (SRR) method described in [1].

Installation

Download the source. cd to the source folder (containing setup.py) and run pip install .

Usage

Please see the demo notebook for a typical usage example.

Citing

For work that uses this code, please reference:

  1. M. G. Deceglie, L. Micheli and M. Muller, "Quantifying Soiling Loss Directly From PV Yield," in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 547-551, March 2018. doi: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2017.2784682