Technical Details

The PVInsight Technical Report is an in-depth report that includes details of the Solar Data Tools project, including detailed descriptions of the tools and the main pipeline algorithms provided by the project.

This IEEE PVSC 2024 paper provides details specifically on the automatic loss factor analysis of the unlabeled PV energy data (a method of the main DataHandler class), including a description how the total energy loss was attributed to different loss factors using Shapley values.

The estimation of the location and orientation algorithm (also a method of the DataHandler class) is described in this IEEE 2021 PVSC paper.

Most of the algorithms make use of a “signal decomposition” framework that was developed in parallel with this software. You can find a monograph explaining this concept here (mirrored here) and a “no math, no code” tutorial on signal decomposition here.