Measured PV data

For now, the measured pv data are collected manually using high quality measurements from universities. The normalized hourly timeseries and high resolution data for some specific days are stored in an excel format in this folder

More details can be found in this publication.

Contribute

To contribute and provide additional shareable data please contact please contact us at giulia.montanari@polito.it or njbca@dtu.dk.

Otherwise it is also possible to do it manually following these steps:

Go in the src/simeasren/data/measured_PV folder and download one of the existing excel file (for example the one called “Utrecht”): click on the file > click on the three dots on the top right of your screen > click download
Rename the excel file to your location and replace the required informations with yours
Fork this repository (Top right of the screen, you need to create a GitHub account)
Go inside the src/simeasren/data/measured_PV folder ; Click on “Add files” and “Upload files” ; Upload your new excel file
Commit the changes, create a pull request, we will review it and after a while your data will be shared on the repository!

PV plants characteristics

The characteristics of the sites currently available are described in the following table:

Parameter	Turin, Italy	Utrecht, The Netherlands	Almería, Spain
Available years	2019–2020	2014–2017	2023ᵃ
Latitude	45.065	51.970°ᵇ	36.931
Longitude	7.659	5.329°ᵇ	−2.472
Tiltᶜ	26°	30°	22°
Azimuthᶜ	206°	170°	178°
System loss	10 %ᵈ	5 %	9.75 %
Building integration	Yes	Yes	No
Installed peak capacity (kWp)	604.6 kWp	1.90 kWp	3992 kWp
Inverter nominal capacity (kW), inlet/outlet	635ᵉ	2.0	3.8 MVA/3.67 MVA
Inverter model	Sunny Tripower	Confidential	Freesun FS3670KH000015
Module manufacturer	Benq	Confidential	Longi
Module model	SunForte PM096B00	Confidential	LR4-72HBD-440M
PV cell technology	Mono c-Si	Mono c-Si	Mono c-Siᶠ

ᵃ Year available only in Renewable ninja.
ᵇ Midpoint of the area reported in Visser et al., values are based on system with ID002.
ᶜ In all cases there is no tracking system.
ᵈ Estimated.
ᵉ Multiple inverters.
ᶠ Bifacial PV panels.