As part of the collaboration objective of SERENDI-PV, several surveys have been developed to collect feedback and knowledge from the PV community.
One of the identified barriers at the beginning of the SERENDI PV project was the lack of common standards, protocols and good practices for data collection, exchange and storage. Current standards and practices as well as recommendations have been developed and included in a dedicated public deliverable (D1.4 Specification on data collection, database, transfer protocols, data privacy and distribution). In order to consolidate and/or challenge these initial recommendations, with the objective to help their adoption the PV community a first survey was developed targeted at various stakeholders in the PV sector.
The consortium of SERENDI-PV is working on various topics covering different types of PV systems (bifacial PV, floating PV, BIPV, …) as well as different PV performance challenges (soiling, degradation, …). SERENDI-PV partners have developed innovative software tools to deal with PV reliability (monitor and diagnosis faults of utility-large, medium-size and residential PV systems), PV performance (modelling of PV production) for innovative PV technologies and in different environment (impacted by soiling, snow, high albedo, …). With experimental data from stakeholders, these tools can be further validated and improved. That is why COPLASIMON has opened collaboration calls to open the SERENDI-PV tools to external stakeholders interested in sharing or receiving data. This represents a further opportunity to gather feedback on data collection, database, transfer protocols, data privacy and distribution through a survey.
Beyond the technical validation and improvement of the tools developed in SERENDI PV, stakeholders’ feedback on the alignment between the developed tools and market’s needs and expectations is valuable as well. Demo presentations or versions of the developed tools in SERENDI PV are available on the “Demo Software Tools” page on Coplasimon along with insights on the key features embedded in the different tools.
Coplasimon’s objective is not limited to showcasing different DEMOs of the software tools developed in the SerendiPV consortium. A public comprehensive referencing of PV simulation software/tools/models is also ambitioned. For this purpose, developers of software are invited to complete the current list of presented software solutions with their own solutions.
