Photovoltaic (PV) Surrogate Model
- This Photovoltaic (PV) unit model
Supports steady-state only
Is a surrogate model created using the PySMO package
Trained using data generated from PySAM which is is a Python package for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s System Advisor Model (SAM)
Degrees of Freedom
The PV model has 1 degree of freedom that should be fixed for the unit to be fully specified.
Model Structure
This PV Surrogate model is created using data from PySAM tool and is trained using PySMO RBF functions. Details regarding the surrogate creation are described in the How-to-Guide for surrogate model creation.
Variables
The system configuration variables should be fixed at the default values, with which the surrogate model was developed:
Variables |
Variable Name |
Symbol |
Valid Range |
Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Design Size |
design_size |
\(S_{design}\) |
1-200,000 |
\(\text{kW}\) |
Land Required |
land_req |
\(A_{land}\) |
\(\text{acres}\) |
|
Annual Energy |
annual_energy |
\(E_{annual}\) |
\(\text{kWh/yr}\) |