pvlib.pvsystem.PVSystem.fuentes_celltemp

PVSystem.fuentes_celltemp(poa_global, temp_air, wind_speed)[source]

Use temperature.fuentes() to calculate cell temperature.

Parameters

  • poa_global (pandas Series) – Total incident irradiance [W/m^2]

  • temp_air (pandas Series) – Ambient dry bulb temperature [C]

  • wind_speed (pandas Series) – Wind speed [m/s]

Returns

temperature_cell (pandas Series) – The modeled cell temperature [C]

Notes

The Fuentes thermal model uses the module surface tilt for convection modeling. The SAM implementation of PVWatts hardcodes the surface tilt value at 30 degrees, ignoring whatever value is used for irradiance transposition. This method defaults to using self.surface_tilt, but if you want to match the PVWatts behavior, you can override it by including a surface_tilt value in temperature_model_parameters.