Posts tagged pvlib

GSoC progress update: coming to the end

Last contributions to pvlib-python have been slow-paced, but that’s understandable since the amount of remaining GSoC proposals was decreased to the astonishing number of zero. Nevertheless, there is a small surprise in there.

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GSoC progress update: last PRs of the project

Thanks to all the reviewers and fellow GSoC students reviewing my PRs, I have been able to keep a good pace of contributions. What’s more, I’ve been able to do a few things more outside of my project, specially regarding documentation, bugs, typos and tests.

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GSoC progress update: dependencies rant

I was going to contribute my biggest PR, the direct beam shading factor via 3d spatial calculus. I developed an OOP approach that uses shapely for the geometric operations. However, thanks to an user thread on the mailing list, I found that solarfactors, a dependency of pvlib, has pinned the maximum version of shapely to anything lesser than 2.0.

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GSoC progress update: difficulties and change of plans

Most of my proposed contributions have pull requests opened and are looking good (I believe). Many of them have at least some kind of feedback or review. However, we have discussed that one of my PRs that would include data without a proper paper backing it up does not align with pvlib python objectives. Therefore, I am looking both for papers and datasets that have some spectral response data of, preferably, common PV cell materials. Help is welcome!

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My development stack

Hi everyone! I’m going to talk a bit about how I work on the programming projects I’m involved with, and how I plan to continue working on GSoC. I hope this post helps you to improve your workflow, or at least to get to know me a bit better.

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Google Summer of Code 2024 participation

This is the first post of a series that will be published in the coming weeks to talk about my participation in Google Summer of Code 2024.

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