Google Summer of Code: Floating PV

[IoannisSifnaios]

This issue gives an overview of the plan and progress of my GSoC project.

The title of my project is "Floating Solar - Enabling modeling of floating PV with pvlib", where I will be adding floating PV temperature models in the pvlib python’s library. The official project description can be found here, and my mentors during this project will be @AdamRJensen and @kandersolar. My detailed plan is the following:

Calculation of ambient parameters for floating PV:

• Albedo for water bodies (non-ocean) as described here

  • Is relevant to improve Albedo advice #1227
  • Corresponding PR: Add albedo function for inland water bodies #2079
  • Is also relevant to Move albedo dictionary from pvlib.irradiance to pvlib.albedo #2095

• Water temperature for floating PV as described here

  • Corresponding PR: stream_temperature_function #2104

• Wind speed at module height

  • Corresponding issue: Expression for calculating wind speed at different heights #2118

Module temperature for floating PV:

• Gallery example of the expansion of the Faiman expression for floating PV (using the methodologies from here and here)

  • Corresponding PR: Floating PV gallery example #2110

• Addition of the Lindholm model (described here)

  • Corresponding PR: Lindholm temperature model for floating PV #2075

Maintenance work:

• Broken GitHub links from gallery examples #2111
• Fix cut-off label text in gallery example figure #2109
• Change accuracy of pvsyst_cell test function #2080

As the project develops, I plan to link these tasks to individual issues and pull requests.

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Please don't hesitate to give any feedback! Since this is the first time I am contributing to pvlib (or any other open-source software, tbh), I am really looking forward to learning as much as possible from all of you!

[IoannisSifnaios]

It looks like there is already a plan to add a floating.py module (as mentioned in #1937).

[IoannisSifnaios]

My GSoC is completed, thus this issue is closed. Thanks to everyone for their assistance!

[kandersolar]

Thanks @IoannisSifnaios for the great contributions!