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pvlib python: 2023 project update

2023; Open Journals; Volume: 8; Issue: 92 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21105/joss.05994

2475-9066

Kevin Anderson, Clifford Hansen, William F. Holmgren, Adam R. Jensen, Mark A. Mikofski, Anton Driesse,

Model Reduction and Neural Networks

pvlib python is a community-developed, open-source software toolbox for simulating the performance of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy components and systems.It provides reference implementations of over 100 empirical and physics-based models from the peer-reviewed scientific literature, including solar position algorithms, irradiance models, thermal models, and PV electrical models.In addition to individual low-level model implementations, pvlib python provides high-level workflows that chain these models together like building blocks to form complete "weather-to-power" photovoltaic system models.It also provides functions to fetch and import a wide variety of weather datasets useful for PV modeling.pvlib python has been developed since 2013 and follows modern best practices for open-source python software, with comprehensive automated testing, standards-based packaging, and semantic versioning.Its source code is developed openly on GitHub and releases are distributed via the Python Package Index (PyPI) and the conda-forge repository.pvlib python's source code is made freely available under the permissive BSD-3 license.Here we (the project's core developers) present an update on pvlib python, describing capability and community development since our 2018 publication (Holmgren, Hansen, & Mikofski, 2018).