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Implement monthly snow loss model
Interesting model for predicting monthly energy loss due to snow, from monthly quantities (snow total, plane-of-array insolation).
Photovoltaics and snow: An update from two winters of measurements in the SIERRA June 2011Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186627
Would be a nice addition to pvlib.snow
I am willing to take this on as an opportunity to make my first contribution to pvlib. I am intending to start on 06/16.
just to reference some older issues:
- Townsend: https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/577#issuecomment-505690291
- SunPower: https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/577#issuecomment-483481664
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Some references:
DNV
[1] T. Townsend and L. Powers, “Photovoltaics and snow: An update from two winters of measurements in the SIERRA,” Conf. Rec. IEEE Photovolt. Spec. Conf., pp. 003231–003236, 2011. BEW IEEE 20110621final.pdf
[1] L. Powers, J. Newmiller, and T. Townsend, “Measuring and modeling the effect of snow on photovoltaic system performance,” Conf. Rec. IEEE Photovolt. Spec. Conf., pp. 973–978, 2010. IEEE2010BEWsnow.pdf
[1] N. Heidari, J. Gwamuri, T. Townsend, and J. M. Pearce, “Impact of Snow and Ground Interference on Photovoltaic Electric System Performance,” IEEE J. Photovoltaics, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 1680–1685, 2015. Impact_of_Snow_and_Ground_Interference_o.pdf
[1] R. W. Andrews, A. Pollard, and J. M. Pearce, “The effects of snowfall on solar photovoltaic performance,” Sol. Energy, vol. 92, pp. 84–97, 2013. DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2013.02.014 Andrews, Pollard, Pearce - 2013 - The effects of snowfall on solar photovoltaic performance.pdf
Rob Andrews, et al. "Effects of Snowfall on PV Performance" at PVPMC 2013 in Santa Clara 38-Andrews-Characterizing-Snow-Losses.pdf0__.pdf
Tim Townsend "BRRR... Who put that snow on my $PV system?" at SPI SPI Poster - Townsend.pdf
SunPower
Defne Gun, Mike Anderson "Dynamic Snow Loss Model and Validation" at PVPMC 2018 in Albuquerque
@abhisheksparikh how is it going? If you need some assistance, my group at EDF could possibly lend a hand implementing the model.
@kurt-rhee Thanks for the offer! :) I am almost ready to open a pull request.
@abhisheksparikh Awesome! Very grateful for the contribution, you've definitely saved us time.
@abhisheksparikh Are you still working on your PR? If you don't have the time I can attempt to continue work on it.
