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SAM snow losses overestimate losses for bifacial systems #1739

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brtietz opened this issue Mar 13, 2024 · 0 comments
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SAM snow losses overestimate losses for bifacial systems #1739

brtietz opened this issue Mar 13, 2024 · 0 comments
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brtietz commented Mar 13, 2024

Snow losses are applied to DC energy, which means that if the snow model computes a 100% loss, 100% of the energy is lost. However, this is only true for the front side of the system, so ignores contributions from the back side of bifacial panels when the front side is covered.

See if there's a quick fix to improve this or if it needs to be a larger project (close if the latter).

@brtietz brtietz added the bug label Mar 13, 2024
@janinefreeman janinefreeman added the pv pvsam1, pvwatts, hcpv label Mar 13, 2024
@janinefreeman janinefreeman added this to the SAM Fall 2024 Release milestone Mar 13, 2024
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