Class EnergyCalculationInputs

Holds all the inputs required for an energy calculation

Namespace: SolarFarmerApi.Client

Syntax

public class EnergyCalculationInputs

Properties

EnergyCalculationOptions

The flags that switch on and off various bits of the model chain.

Declaration

public EnergyCalculationOptions EnergyCalculationOptions { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
EnergyCalculationOptions

HorizonAngles

The angle of the horizon above the horizontal at each azimuth point.
Units: degrees.
Required if the horizon model is enabled in the EnergyCalculationOptions

Declaration

public ICollection<double> HorizonAngles { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Collections.Generic.ICollection<System.Double>

HorizonAzimuths

The azimuths for each of the HorizonAngles
Units: degrees.
Required if the horizon model is enabled in the EnergyCalculationOptions.

Declaration

public ICollection<double> HorizonAzimuths { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Collections.Generic.ICollection<System.Double>

Location

The location of the plant
Used to calculate the solar position for any given time.

Declaration

public Location Location { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
Location

MeteorologicalConditionsDataset

The meteo data.
Not required as can be read from a .dat file

Declaration

public MeteorologicalConditionsDataset MeteorologicalConditionsDataset { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
MeteorologicalConditionsDataset

MonthlyAlbedo

The albedo of the ground. One value for each month of the year.
Fraction of 1. 1 representing all light being reflected, 0 representing no light being reflected.
Required. If albedo is read from meteo file and enabled via EnergyCalculationOptions.UseAlbedoFromMetDataWhenAvailable, these values will be used in case of any missing data.

Declaration

public ICollection<double> MonthlyAlbedo { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Collections.Generic.ICollection<System.Double>

PanFileSupplements

These accompany the pan files. If there is supplementary data associated with a pan file listed in
PanFilePathsOrContents then it should be added here using the same key.
Not required. The pan file is sufficient without these additional data.

Declaration

public IDictionary<string, PanFileSupplements> PanFileSupplements { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Collections.Generic.IDictionary<System.String, PanFileSupplements>

PvPlant

The PV plant
This includes all the components, their specifications and how many of each there are and how they are connected together.

Declaration

public PVPlant PvPlant { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
PVPlant

RequestedResultsPVsystFormat

A list of variables to be included in the PVsyst format results file.

Declaration

public ICollection<string> RequestedResultsPVsystFormat { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Collections.Generic.ICollection<System.String>

SolarPositions

The solar positions.
Optional.
Typically this is left empty and SolarFarmer calculates the solar positions.

Declaration

public SolarPositions SolarPositions { get; set; }

Property Value

Type	Description
SolarPositions