Dear All,
I cannot read PVGIS weather solar resource data files in EPW format into SAM. Has there been updates to the PVGIS formatting that means SAM can no longer read the file? I did text editing of the downloaded EPW format file to ensure the header data was consistent.
I attempted to convert the PVGIS downloaded EPW file using the macro covert to change it to the SAM csv. However, this was unsuccessful.
The attached file is the downloaded PVGIS EPW file which I could not read into SAM.
I also attempted to read - unsuccessfully - the file into SAM after replacing the header rows on the PVGIS EPW file below
LOCATION,unknown,-,unknown,ECMWF/ERA,unknown,47.304000,-1.769000,1,82DESIGN CONDITIONS,0TYPICAL/EXTREME PERIODS,0GROUND TEMPERATURES,0HOLIDAYS/DAYLIGHT SAVING,No,0,0,0COMMENTS 1,Weather Analytics - Sensor Point System data - based on the ECMWF-ERACOMMENTS 2DATA PERIODS,1,1,Data,Thursday, 1/ 1,12/31
with
Source,Location,Latitude,Longitude,Time Zone,Elevation
PVGIS, St Etienne MontLuc, 47.304000,-1.769000,1,82Year,Month,Day,Hour,Minute,DNI,DHI,GHI,Dew Point,Temperature,Pressure,Wind Direction,Wind Speed,Surface Albedo,,,,,,
I´ll be grateful for any advice.
David T.