ANN: pvlib-0.9.3 released

[Mark Mikofski]

Dear Pythonistas and solar power enthusiasts,

The maintainers are happy to announce a new release of pvlib python: software for simulating performance of photovoltaic solar energy systems.

See what's new for v0.9.3:

* https://pvlib-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/whatsnew.html

Releases are available from PyPI and the conda-forge channel:

* https://pypi.org/project/pvlib/

* https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pvlib

* https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pvlib-python

Note: you can now install from conda-forge using either "pvlib" or "pvlib-python"

Read the Documentation:

* https://pvlib-python.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

Report issues & contribute:

* https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python

Highlights:

* Anton Driesse has joined the maintainers. Anton has been a consistent contributor, a frequent poster on Google Groups, and a fixture in the PV modeling community for many years. We gladly welcome Anton and are grateful for his support.

* Several new functions to calculate spectral mismatch of photovoltaic devices between incident and reference spectra. Compare this to the existing FSLR spectral mismatch function.

* The Townsend snow loss model is now available. Compare this with the existing snow loss model from Marion.

* A new generic linear temperature model function and class that can convert between PVsyst, Faiman, and SAPM thermal model coefficients.

* A new altitude look-up function using public data from Mapzen, a project for open map data hosted by AWS.

* There were four new first time contributors! Thank you!

* There was a training using JupyterHub at PVPMC 2022. Check it out!

Thank you for using pvlib python!

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