solarenergy 0.0.1

A free, fast and accurate Python package to compute the position of the Sun

SolarEnergy

A Python module do simple modelling in the field of solar energy. The code is being developped by Marc van der Sluys of the department of Sustainable energy of the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

Installation

This package can be installed using pip install solarenergy. This should automatically install the dependency packages sys, datetime, pytz, numpy and soltrack if they haven't been installed already. If you are installing by hand, ensure that these packages are installed as well.

SolarEnergy pages

• Pypi: SolarEnergy Python package
• GitHub: SolarEnergy source code

Author and licence

• Author: Marc van der Sluys
• Contact: http://han.vandersluys.nl/en/
• Licence: GPLv3+

References

• This Python code is adapted from the Fortran implementation in libTheSky, which contains many references.
• Celestial mechanics in a nutshell (CMiaNS)