Tools to interface with Radiance for the PV researcher
Project description
bifacial_radiance
Introduction
bifacial_radiance contains a series of Python wrapper functions to make working with
RADIANCE easier, particularly for the PV researcher interested in bifacial PV
performance. For more information, check out our documentation,
Tutorials in the form of Jupyter Notebooks, or reffer to our Wiki
and Issues page.
Installation
This video shows how to install the bifacial_radiance software and all associated software needed. More info on the Wiki. Instructions are also shown below.
For detailed instructions of how to install bifacial_radiance, you can also refer to the installation guide
GUI!
A GUI has been added in version 3.0. The GUI reads/writes all input parameters necessary to run a simulation, and runs the specified simulation by calling the correct functions with the specified parameters. So no need to use a journal or a script! But you still need to install following the procedure below.
To run the gui, import bifacial_radiance and run bifacial_radiance.gui()
Usage
We have a tutorial video, showing how the program is structured, how to use the Jupyter tutorials and the GUI. You can watch it here Tutorial Webinar, with the slides available here.
Check out the Jupyter Tutorial Notebooks to see detailed examples of the capacities of bifacial_radiance.
The Intro examples and the readthedocs documentation also provide a good starting point.
Contributing
We need your help to make bifacial_radiance a great tool! Please see the Contributing page for more on how you can contribute. The long-term success of bifacial_radiance requires substantial community support.
License
Bifacial_radiance open source code is copyrighted by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy and licensed with BSD-3-Clause terms, found here.
Getting Support
If you suspect that you may have discovered a bug or if you'd like to
change something about bifacial_radiance, then please make an issue on our
bifacial_radiance questions can be asked on
Stack Overflow and tagged with
the bifacial_radiance tag.
The bifacial-radiance google group
has just started, and will be used for discussing various topics of interest to the bifacial-radiance
community. We also make new version announcements on the google group.
Citing
If you use bifacial_radiance in a published work, please cite:
Ayala Pelaez and Deline, (2020). bifacial_radiance: a python package for modeling bifacial solar photovoltaic systems. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(50), 1865, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01865
Please also cite the DOI corresponding to the specific version of bifacial_radiance that you used. bifacial_radiance DOIs are listed at Zenodo.org
Additional bifacial_radiance publications with validation of the software include:
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Deline, Chris, and Ayala, Silvana. Bifacial_Radiance. Computer Software. https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance. USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (EE-4S). 17 Dec. 2017. Web. doi:10.11578/dc.20180530.16. https://www.osti.gov/doecode/biblio/6869
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Ayala Pelaez S, Deline C, Greenberg P, Stein JS, Kostuk RK. Model and validation of single-axis tracking with bifacial PV. IEEE J Photovoltaics. 2019;9(3):715-721. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8644027 and https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/72039.pdf (pre-print, conference version)
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Ayala Pelaez, Deline C, MacAlpine M, Marion B, Stein J, Kostuk K. Comparison of Bifacial Solar Irradiance Model Predictions with Field Validation. IEEE J Photovoltaics. 2019; 9(1):82-87. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8534404
Or check our Github Wiki for a complete list of publications.
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