reskit.solar.core.system_design

reskit.solar.core.system_design#

Functions#

location_to_tilt(locs[, convention])

Simple system tilt estimator based off latitude and longitude coordinates

Module Contents#

reskit.solar.core.system_design.location_to_tilt(locs, convention='Ryberg2020', **kwargs)#

Simple system tilt estimator based off latitude and longitude coordinates

Parameters:

  • locs (geokit.LocationSet or iterable of (lon,lat) pairs) – The locations at which to estimate system tilt angle

  • convention (str, optional) –

    The calculation method used to suggest system tilts Options are:

    • ”Ryberg2020”

    • A string consumable by ‘eval’

    • Can use the variable ‘latitude’

    • Ex. “latitude*0.76”

    • A path to a raster file

  • kwargs (Optional keyword arguments to use in geokit.raster.interpolateValues(...).) – Only applies when convention is a path to a raster file

Returns:

Suggested tilt angle at each of the provided locs. Has the same length as the number of locs.

Return type:

np.ndarray

Notes

“Ryberg2020”

When convention equals “Ryberg2020”, the following equation is followed:

\[42.327719357601396 * arctan( 1.5 * abs(latitude) )\]