Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) The Photovoltaic (PV) Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) organized a blind PV performance modeling intercomparison to allow PV modelers to blindly test their models and modeling ability against real system data. Measured weather and irradiance data were provided along with detailed descriptions of PV systems from two locations...
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Dataset for Evaluating the Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Solar Photovoltaic Production
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) This dataset was used to support machine learning model development for wildfire impacts on utility-scale solar in the United States. The dataset includes information regarding energy generation, PM2.5, clearness index, temperature, wind speed, precipitation, and site size. Link to Dataset Dataset for Evaluating the Impact of Wildfire...
Dataset for Evaluation of Extreme Weather Impacts on Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Plant Performance in the United States
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) This dataset is a fusion of three data types (operations and maintenance tickets, weather data, and production data) that was used to support machine learning analysis and evaluation of drivers for low performance at photovoltaic (PV) sites during compound, extreme weather events. After being processed with machine...
Dataset for Evaluation of Extreme Weather Impacts on Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Plant Performance in the United States
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) This dataset is a fusion of three data types (operations and maintenance tickets, weather data, and production data) that was used to support machine learning analysis and evaluation of drivers for low performance at photovoltaic (PV) sites during compound, extreme weather events. After being processed with machine...
Distributional Health Impacts of Replacing Power-Plants with Energy Storage and Photovoltaic Power
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) Raw data in excel format to be submitted as supplemental material as part of a journal article submission titled "Distributional Health Impacts of Replacing Power-Plants with Energy Storage and PV" Files: Power-plant replacement results - These data include a list of powerplants in the continental U.S., how...
Global Horizontal Spectral Irradiance
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM has measured global horizontal spectral irradiance nearly continuously from September 2019 to March 2022. During this time other broadband irradiance measurements (global horizontal, direct normal, diffuse horizontal and global normal) and and weather variables were also recorded. For this dataset PV Performance...
Global Normal Spectral Irradiance
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) The Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL) at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in Albuquerque, NM has measured global normal spectral irradiance nearly continuously from August 2013 to April 2018. During this time other broadband irradiance measurements (global horizontal, direct normal, diffuse horizontal and global normal) and weather variables...
Global normal spectral irradiance in Albuquerque – Data and Resources
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) The Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL) at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in Albuquerque, NM has measured global normal spectral irradiance nearly continuously from August 2013 to April 2018. During this time other broadband irradiance measurements (global horizontal, direct normal, diffuse horizontal and global normal) and weather variables were also...
IEA PVPS Task 13: Module Characterization and Field Data
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) Data from Annex 1 of the IEA PVPS Task 13 report entitled: Climatic Rating of Photovoltaic Modules: Different Technologies for Various Operating Conditions (46061 downloads ) The data set consists of two parts: Module performance data Pmax, Isc, and Voc matrix Temperature coefficient α, β and δ...
Module Characterization Data
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) Lifetime testing and characterization of PV modules from different manufacturers. Link to Dataset Module Characterization DataDate last updated: 2020
MultiSolSegment: EL images and masks
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) This dataset was used to train MultiSolSegment, a multi-channel segmentation model for photovoltaic defect detection. It contains electroluminescent (EL) images of monocrystalline solar modules from four sources: Arizona State University Case Western Reserve University (DuPont and SunEdison datasets) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (part of the pv-vision effort)All...
Photovoltaic Module Current-Voltage and Electroluminescence Image Data (PV-IV-EL)
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) This dataset consists of 613 sets of corresponding current-voltage trace (IV) flash test data and electroluminescence (EL) image data for commercial PV modules from the Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory at Sandia National Laboratories. PV modules are from fielded systems in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Measurements of corresponding...
Power-plant replacement results
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) Raw data in excel format to be submitted as supplemental material as part of a journal article submission titled "Distributional Health Impacts of Replacing Power-Plants with Energy Storage and PV" These data include a list of powerplants in the continental U.S., how expensive each would be to...
PV Module Operating Temperature Data
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories, others) The Photovoltaic Systems Evaluation Laboratory (PSEL) at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in Albuquerque, NM has an extensive test site where PV modules and other system components are deployed and monitored for testing and evaluation. For this dataset PV Performance Labs has assembled one year of measurements...
PV Performance Modeling – Data and Resources
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) The Photovoltaic (PV) Performance Modeling Collaborative (PVPMC) organized a blind PV performance modeling intercomparison to allow PV modelers to blindly test their models and modeling ability against real system data. Measured weather and irradiance data were provided along with detailed descriptions of PV systems from two locations...
Solar Variability Data
Post, November 13, 2025 • (Sandia National Laboratories) To determine the impact of solar variability to electric grid operations, appropriate samples of solar variability must be used, but determining appropriate variability samples is difficult for locations without ground measurements. In this work, we evaluate and model the relationship between high-frequency and low-frequency solar variability. The...
U.S. and International Solar Radiation Database
Post, November 13, 2025 • (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) The National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) is a serially complete collection of hourly and half-hourly values of meteorological data and the three most common measurements of solar radiation: global horizontal, direct normal and diffuse horizontal irradiance. It covers the United States and a growing subset of...