TUTORIALS for PV Degradation Tools (pvdeg)#

Jupyter Book#

For in depth Tutorials you can run online, see our jupyter-book Clicking on the rocket-icon on the top allows you to launch the journals on Google Colaboratory for interactive mode. Just uncomment the first line pip install ... to install the environment on each journal if you follow this mode.

Binder#

To run these tutorials in Binder, you can click here: Binder It takes a minute to load the environment.

Locally#

You can also run the tutorial locally with miniconda by following thes steps:

  1. Install miniconda.

  2. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/NREL/PVDegradationTools.git
    
  3. Create the environment and install the requirements. The repository includes a requirements.txt file that contains a list the packages needed to run this tutorial. To install them using conda run:

    conda create -n pvdeg jupyter -c pvlib --file requirements.txt
    conda activate pvdeg
    

    or you can install it with pip install pvdeg as explained in the installation instructions into the environment.

  4. Start a Jupyter session:

    jupyter notebook
    
  5. Use the file explorer in Jupyter lab to browse to tutorials and start the first Tutorial.

Documentation#

We also have documentation in ReadTheDocs where you can find more details on the API functions.