pvlib.modelchain.ModelChain.run_model#

ModelChain.run_model(weather)[source]#

Run the model chain starting with broadband global, diffuse and/or direct irradiance.

Parameters:

weather (DataFrame, or tuple or list of DataFrame) –

Column names must include:

'dni'
'ghi'
'dhi'

Optional columns are:

'temp_air'
'cell_temperature'
'module_temperature'
'wind_speed'
'albedo'

If optional columns 'temp_air' and 'wind_speed' are not provided, air temperature of 20 C and wind speed of 0 m/s are added to the DataFrame. If optional column 'cell_temperature' is provided, these values are used instead of temperature_model. If optional column 'module_temperature' is provided, temperature_model must be 'sapm'.

If optional column 'albedo' is provided, 'albedo' may not be present on the ModelChain’s PVSystem.Arrays.

If weather is a list or tuple, it must be of the same length and order as the Arrays of the ModelChain’s PVSystem.

Returns:

self

Raises:

ValueError – If the number of DataFrames in data is different than the number of Arrays in the PVSystem.
ValueError – If the DataFrames in data have different indexes.

Notes

Assigns attributes to results: times, weather, solar_position, airmass, total_irrad, aoi, aoi_modifier, spectral_modifier, and effective_irradiance, cell_temperature, dc, ac, losses, diode_params (if dc_model is a single diode model).