Welcome to the documentation of pvcompare!

pvcompare is a model for comparing the benefits of different PV technologies in a specified local energy system in different energy supply scenarios.

• pvcompare
  • Introduction
  • Documentation
  • Installation
  • Examples and basic usage
  • Contributing
• Basic usage of pvcompare
  • Run a simulation
  • Define your own components and parameters
  • Download ERA5 weather data
  • Add a sensitivy to your simulations
• Model assumptions
  • Local energy sytem
  • PV Modeling
  • Electricity and heat demand modeling
  • Heat pump and thermal storage modelling
• Parameters of pvcompare: Definitions and Default Values
  • 1. MVS Parameters
  • 2. pvcompare-specific parameters
• Simulation outputs
  • Definition of KPIs
• Scope and limitations
• Selected results of the GRECO project
  • Results of PV modeling
• Code documentation
  • Main
  • Area potential
  • Demand
  • Feed-in time series of photovoltaic installations
  • CPV time series
  • PSI time series
  • Heat pumps and chillers
  • Stratified thermal storage
  • Reading and Writing input csv’s
  • Loading ERA5 weather data
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Evaluation
  • Visualization
• Troubleshooting

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page