Solar Branch of Course 9 at Ferienakademie

Milestones

• Estimate Radiation on panel
• Estimate Power output of panel
• Optimize Tilt of panel (also potentially location)
• Estimate and include shading loss (in various degrees of detail)
• Integration with Heat pump group:
  • Interface:
    • Input: Time, Location, Weather?
    • Output: Power per time step
• Fit panel orientation to energy demand/costs etc. basically cost function.
• 3D rendering visualization of power cycle

Data & Methodology

• Radiation estimation:

  • Weather data
  • Location:
    • Latitude
    • Longitude
    • Altitude
  • Orientation:
    • Azimuth
    • Elevation angle
  • Time
  • Date
  • Timezone?
  • Shadow model:
    • Blender/Google maps

• Power estimation:

  • Panel data (Solar equation)

• Optimization:

  • ADAM optimizer

• Shading:

  • Initially stupid coefficient
  • Pathtracing/Projecting shadows