twoaxistracking - a new package in the pvlib organization? #1407
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@AdamRJensen as an organization, pvlib is open to several projects that provide open-source software for solar power. pvlib/pvlib-python is the package for "forward" modeling, i.e., given weather data and system parameters, predict output. pvlib/pvanalytics is intended to be the package supporting "backward" analysis, i.e., providing functions that operate on measured data (weather, PV system output) to provide quality metrics, detect features such as inverter clipping, etc. There's hope to launch a third project pvlib/pvmodules to contain code to generate the CEC module parameter file. Nothing in pvlib-python currently is specific to two-axis tracking, mostly because I think the use cases are not common. I am open to a new module in pvlib-python, adding code to pvlib/shading.py, or a combination of these options. |
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That subpackage concept is interesting. I wonder if it might be a good fit for Anyway, shall we move the repository now and figure out the integration with pvlib later? Haven't heard from @wholmgren here yet. |
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Do you want to (A) transfer ownership to pvlib? That will make pr’s naturally point to its new location & and keep issue/PR history versus (B-1) forking it or (B-2) cloning and creating a new repo which would leave the old location as “upstream” & which would lose all the old history. My preference is A |
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And we are live! https://github.com/pvlib/twoaxistracking readthedocs has been updated so it now points to the new location, and @kanderso-nrel has been added as co-maintainer. |
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Documenting a quirk of the process for posterity: @AdamRJensen couldn't transfer it directly to pvlib because of lack of permission to create new repositories in the pvlib org, so instead we did it in two steps using my account as a middleman. 🤷 |
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It seems that simulating shading of two-axis trackers is more difficult than expected, and since I never got a reply from my post in the Google group I decided to develop a package. The package is called twoaxistracking and is documented at twoaxistracking.readthedocs.io.
The repository is currently under my GH user, which is less than ideal for something that hopefully will get used by many others. Therefore, I was wondering if there is interest in moving the package to the pvlib organization? After all, it seems to fit the scope, in that it deals with (1) solar/PV and (2) simulation.
I suppose this mostly depends on the aim of the pvlib organization is. Is it to become similar to organizations such as sunpy which has many projects (I guess of which pvanalytics would be one)? Or is it solely dedicated to pvlib?
I'm willing to be the maintainer long-term and with help from @kanderso-nrel the package will soon have a range of tests and linting. Also, starting from version 0.2.0 the package will be available on PyPi.
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