Capacity Factor

[Helix]

Hello everyone,

I have been given a task and am currently struggling with it.

The question is if/how much PV will be influenced by climate change in the future.

I have access to several variables like windspeed, temperature, and (diffuse/direct) radiation.

In my mind it is something like this:
1. Calculate for each grid cell the power output of an imginary PV system

2. Compare historical and future results with each other.

For this task is not that much about extremely accurate simulations, more about the general idea behind it.

My problem is that I have no idea on how to do those calculations. I know that pvlib is very powerful, but I've never worked with it.
Can somebody point me in the right direction?

[cwh...@sandia.gov]

The introduction tutorial shows how to model power from a PV system.

https://pvlib-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide/getting_started/introtutorial.html

Cheers,

Cliff