References

Citing Us

If using this package, please cite us using the following

Bonney et al., (2023). pvOps: a Python package for empirical analysis of photovoltaic field data.
Journal of Open Source Software, 8(91), 5755, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05755

In BibTex format:

@article{Bonney2023,
  doi = {10.21105/joss.05755},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05755},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {The Open Journal},
  volume = {8},
  number = {91},
  pages = {5755},
  author = {Kirk L. Bonney and Thushara Gunda and Michael W. Hopwood and Hector Mendoza and Nicole D. Jackson},
  title = {pvOps: a Python package for empirical analysis of photovoltaic field data},
  journal = {Journal of Open Source Software} }

We also utilize content from other packages. See the NOTICE/ directory on our GitHub!

Additionally, some of our own content comes from published papers. See the following external references.

External references

[Bis88]

J.W. Bishop. Computer simulation of the effects of electrical mismatches in photovoltaic cell interconnection circuits. Solar Cells, 25(1):73–89, 1988. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0379678788900592, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/0379-6787(88)90059-2.

[DJN+18]

Michael G Deceglie, Dirk Jordan, Ambarish Nag, Christopher A Deline, and Adam Shinn. Rdtools: an open source python library for pv degradation analysis. Technical Report, National Renewable Energy Lab.(NREL), Golden, CO (United States), 2018.

[DGK+13]

T. Dierauf, A. Growitz, S. Kurtz, J. L. B. Cruz, E. Riley, and C. Hansen. Weather-corrected performance ratio. 4 2013. URL: https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1078057, doi:10.2172/1078057.

[HHM18]

William F Holmgren, Clifford W Hansen, and Mark A Mikofski. Pvlib python: a python package for modeling solar energy systems. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(29):884, 2018. doi:10.21105/joss.00884.

[HG22]

Michael W. Hopwood and Thushara Gunda. Generation of data-driven expected energy models for photovoltaic systems. Applied Sciences, 2022. URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/4/1872, doi:10.3390/app12041872.

[HGSW20]

Michael W. Hopwood, Thushara Gunda, Hubert Seigneur, and Joseph Walters. Neural network-based classification of string-level iv curves from physically-induced failures of photovoltaic modules. IEEE Access, 8():161480–161487, 2020. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3021577.

[HSBS22]

Michael W. Hopwood, Joshua S. Stein, Jennifer L. Braid, and Hubert P. Seigneur. Physics-based method for generating fully synthetic iv curve training datasets for machine learning classification of pv failures. Energies, 2022. URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/14/5085, doi:10.3390/en15145085.

[KS16]

Katherine A Klise and Joshua S Stein. Performance monitoring using pecos (v. 0.1). Technical Report, Sandia National Laboraties, 2016. doi:10.2172/1734479.

[MHG21]

Hector Mendoza, Michael Hopwood, and Thushara Gunda. Pvops: improving operational assessments through data fusion. In 2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), volume, 0112–0119. 2021. doi:10.1109/PVSC43889.2021.9518439.

[PKL+20]

Benjamin G Pierce, Ahmad Maroof Karimi, JiQi Liu, Roger H French, and Jennifer L Braid. Identifying degradation modes of photovoltaic modules using unsupervised machine learning on electroluminescense images. In 2020 47th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 1850–1855. IEEE, 2020. doi:10.1109/PVSC45281.2020.9301021.