ANN: pvlib-0.9.5 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.

v0.9.5 Highlights:

* The infinite_sheds model now has options to use the hay-davies transposition model and faster vectorized calculations.
* New models for irradiance decomposition (boland) and relative airmass (gueymard2003).
* Model extensions for multiple strings in pvlib.snow.loss_townsend and AR coating in pvlib.iam.physical.
* Updated the parameters database for the ADR inverter model.
* Various other bug fixes and testing updates.

For the full list of what's new, see the documentation: 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 and https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pvlib-python

NOTE: new pvlib releases are no longer uploaded to the "pvlib" conda channel.  Please install from PyPI or the conda-forge channel instead.

Read the Documentation:

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

Report issues & contribute:

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

Community discussion & support:

* https://groups.google.com/g/pvlib-python

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

Thank you for using pvlib python!

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