pvlib.modelchain.ModelChain.run_model

ModelChain.run_model(times=None, irradiance=None, weather=None)[source]

Run the model.

Parameters:

times : DatetimeIndex

Times at which to evaluate the model. Can be None if attribute times is already set.

irradiance : None or DataFrame

This parameter is deprecated. Please use weather instead.

weather : None or DataFrame

If None, assumes air temperature is 20 C, wind speed is 0 m/s and irradiation calculated from clear sky data. Column names must be ‘wind_speed’, ‘temp_air’, ‘dni’, ‘ghi’, ‘dhi’. Do not pass incomplete irradiation data. Use method complete_irradiance() instead.

Returns:

self

Assigns attributes: times, solar_position, airmass, irradiance,

total_irrad, effective_irradiance, weather, temps, aoi,

aoi_modifier, spectral_modifier, dc, ac, losses.