solaR: Solar Radiation and Photovoltaic Systems with R

Perpiñan Lamigueiro, Oscar (2012). solaR: Solar Radiation and Photovoltaic Systems with R. "Journal of Statistical Software", v. 50 (n. 9); pp. 1-32. ISSN 1548-7660.

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Title: solaR: Solar Radiation and Photovoltaic Systems with R
Author/s:
  • Perpiñan Lamigueiro, Oscar
Item Type: Article
Título de Revista/Publicación: Journal of Statistical Software
Date: August 2012
ISSN: 1548-7660
Volume: 50
Subjects:
Freetext Keywords: sun geometry, solar radiation, solar energy, photovoltaic, visualization methods, time series, spatio-temporal data, S4
Faculty: E.U.I.T. Industrial (UPM)
Department: Ingeniería Eléctrica [hasta 2014]
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Abstract

The solaR package allows for reproducible research both for photovoltaics (PV) systems performance and solar radiation. It includes a set of classes, methods and functions to calculate the sun geometry and the solar radiation incident on a photovoltaic generator and to simulate the performance of several applications of the photovoltaic energy. This package performs the whole calculation procedure from both daily and intradaily global horizontal irradiation to the final productivity of grid-connected PV systems and water pumping PV systems.

It is designed using a set of S4 classes whose core is a group of slots with multivariate time series. The classes share a variety of methods to access the information and several visualization methods. In addition, the package provides a tool for the visual statistical analysis of the performance of a large PV plant composed of several systems.

Although solaR is primarily designed for time series associated to a location defined by its latitude/longitude values and the temperature and irradiation conditions, it can be easily combined with spatial packages for space-time analysis.

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Item ID: 20821
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/20821/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:20821
Official URL: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v50/i09
Deposited by: Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro
Deposited on: 30 Sep 2013 07:07
Last Modified: 01 Mar 2016 14:01
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