Solar PV outputs for dozens of locations

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Jiajia Zheng
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19 Oct 2020 23:02 #8894 by Jiajia Zheng

Solar PV outputs for dozens of locations was created by Jiajia Zheng

Hi,

Anyone knows how to generate solar PV outputs using PVWatts in SAM for multiple different locations? I am working on getting hourly solar outputs for an entire state and have the weather files of dozens of cities downloaded already. Do I have to create one case for each location and simulate individually? Many thanks.

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Paul Gilman

20 Oct 2020 16:17 #8900 by Paul Gilman

Replied by Paul Gilman on topic Solar PV outputs for dozens of locations

Hi Jiajia,

You could write an LK script to run a simulation for each location and write results to a CSV file.

For an introduction to LK scripting, see sam.nrel.gov/lk-script.html.

This solar-resource-simulate-multiple-files.lk sample script shows how to run simulations for multiple weather files:

github.com/NREL/SAM/tree/develop/samples/LK%20Scripts%20for%20SAM

The readme at the bottom of the page has instructions for downloading the scripts.

Best regards,
Paul.

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Jiajia Zheng
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21 Oct 2020 18:20 #8911 by Jiajia Zheng

Replied by Jiajia Zheng on topic Solar PV outputs for dozens of locations

Thank you Paul! I have downloaded the .lk files, and modified the codes for exporting hourly outputs to .csv files in batch. Your answer was very helpful.

-Jiajia

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