Welcome to the Solar Data Tools Docs!#
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Solar Data Tools is an open-source Python library for analyzing PV power (and irradiance) time-series data. It was developed to enable analysis of unlabeled PV data, i.e. with no model, no meteorological data, and no performance index required, by taking a statistical signal processing approach in the algorithms used in the package’s main data processing pipeline. Solar Data Tools empowers PV system fleet owners or operators to analyze system performance a hundred times faster even when they only have access to the most basic data stream—power output of the system.
Solar Data Tools provides methods for data I/O, cleaning, filtering, plotting, and analysis. These methods are largely automated and require little to no input from the user regardless of system type—from utility tracking systems to multi-pitch rooftop systems. Get started here with installation and basic tutorials! We also recommend taking a look at this recent webinar we did with the DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) with our colleagues at NREL, where we discuss the motivation behind the development of Solar Data Tools and demonstrate its capabilities.
Contributions to these documentation pages are welcome (and much appreciated!), and you can find our contribution guidelines here.
This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Solar Energy Technologies Office Award Number 38529.
New to Solar Data Tools? Check out the getting started guides for installation and general usage information, project details, as well as quick links to additional examples and tutorials.
The user guide provides in-depth information on the key concepts and methods of Solar Data Tools with useful background information and explanation.
Saw a typo in the documentation? Want to improve existing functionalities? The contributing guidelines will guide you through the process of improving Solar Data Tools.
The reference guide contains a detailed description of the Solar Data Tools API, describing how the methods work and which parameters can be used.
