ANN: pvlib-0.9.2 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 v0.9.2:

* 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:

* Albedo can be entered as a column in weather DataFrame when running a model chain. This can be used to enter a time series instead of just monthly values.

* A new function calc_surface_orientation() returns tracker surface tilt and azimuth when given tracker rotation and axis tilt.

* There's a new example in the gallery to calculate backside irradiance using pvfactors.

* Dropped support for Python-3.6 and increased required pandas to v0.25.0

* A new build system that conforms to PEP 517 & PEP518

* There were several new contributors.

Thank you for using pvlib python!

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