Solar Structures Internship at Kimley-Horn
As my summer intern project at Harper GC, I spearheaded a digital twin of Harper GC's office space. This digital twin had the goal of improving asset tracking and workspace efficiency within the BIM office.
What is Solar Structures?
SAM and other tools are too general: they use an average case basis, rather than a more granular and accurate prediction process.
Calculations and Code Checks
Take a row by row analysis - place rows into buckets with similar slopes, external or internal, reveal heights, run based off that.
Design Softwares
explain what pvtune output looks like
how it is used
what my pvtune analysis script does
CAD Drawing Generation
Explain model chain first - pvlib bifacial example as baseline - albedo and reveal height adjustments (what pvlib wasn't considering).
use of optuna optimization library - iterates through given range of values
use of model chain to come up with predictions