Other options

Please pay attention to the input data. If you want to use only Direct Normal Irradiance input data as part of the co-simulation, then mosaik-pv is suitable, if you want to use full weather information (global irradiance, wind speed, air temperature and pressure) then mosaik-pvlib is suitable. If you are satisfied with historical performance estimates for a particular location or have no other input data, then mosaik-pvgis is the best solution which is based on PVGIS performance data.

Installation

• To use this project, you have to install at least version 3.2.0 of mosaik

• It is recommended, to use the Mosaik-CSV Library to import meteo data

If you don’t want to install this project through PyPI, you can use pip to install the requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to Use

Specify simulators configurations within your scenario script:

SIM_CONFIG = {
    'MeteoSim': {
        'python': 'mosaik_csv:CSV'
    },
    'PVSim': {
        'python': 'mosaik_components.pv.photovoltaic_simulator:PVSimulator'
    },
    ...
}

Initialize the PV- and meteo-simulator:

# Create weather/meteo simulator
meteo_sim = world.start("MeteoSim", sim_start=START, datafile=METEO_DATA)

# Create PV system with certain configuration
pv_count = 5
pv_config = {str(i) : generate_configurations(Scenarios.HOUSE) for i in range(pv_count)}
pv_sim = world.start(
                "PVSim",
                start_date=START,
                step_size=STEP_SIZE,
                pv_data=pv_config,
            )

Instantiate model entities:

meteo_model = meteo_sim.Braunschweig.create(1)
pv_model = pv_sim.PVSim.create(pv_count)

Connect meteo input with PV-simulator:

world.connect(
                    meteo_model[0],
                    pv_model[0],
                    ("GlobalRadiation", "GHI[W/m2]"),
                    ("AirPressHourly", "Air[Pa]"),
                    ("AirTemperature", "Air[C]"),
                    ("WindSpeed", "Wind[m/s]"),
                )

CSV-Formatting

For the simulator to work correctly, both .csv files have to be specifically formatted!

Wind
Date,wind_speed
YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss,v1
YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss,v2
...
Braunschweig
Time,GlobalRadiation,AirPressHourly,AirTemperature,WindSpeed
YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss,2.1,92.0,0.0,0.0

Changelog

Authors

The adapter was initially developed by Fernando Penaherrera and updated by Danila Valko.