twoaxistracking
A Python package for simulating two-axis tracking solar collectors, particularly self-shading.
https://github.com/pvlib/twoaxistracking
Category: Renewable Energy
Sub Category: Photovoltaics and Solar Energy
Keywords
photovoltaics python renewable-energy solar-energy
Keywords from Contributors
photovoltaic renewables solar pv solar-power pvlib bifacial
Last synced: about 22 hours ago
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twoaxistracking is a python package for simulating two-axis tracking solar collectors, particularly self-shading.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pvlib/twoaxistracking
- Owner: pvlib
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2021-06-07T23:34:09.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-10-07T09:00:30.000Z (3 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-11-23T08:13:23.754Z (about 1 month ago)
- Topics: photovoltaics, python, renewable-energy, solar-energy
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://twoaxistracking.readthedocs.io
- Size: 5.92 MB
- Stars: 10
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 6
- Releases: 13
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
- Citation: CITATION.cff
README.md
Open source code for calculating self-shading of two-axis tracking solar collectors
twoaxistracking is a python package for simulating two-axis tracking solar collectors, particularly self-shading.
Documentation
The documentation can be found at readthedocs.
Installation and dependencies
The package can be installed using pip:
pip install twoaxistracking
Citing
If you use the package in published work, please cite:
Adam R. Jensen, Ioannis Sifnaios, and Kevin Anderson. "twoaxistracking – a python package for simulating
self-shading of two-axis tracking solar collectors." MethodsX, 9, 101876, (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2022.101876
and
Adam R. Jensen, Ioannis Sifnaios, Simon Furbo, and Janne Dragsted. "Self-shading of two-axis
tracking solar collectors: Impact of field layout, latitude, and aperture shape." Solar
Energy, 236, 215–224, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2022.02.023
Contributing
Contributions to the repository, e.g., bug fixes and improvements to speed up the code are more than welcome.
License
Citation (CITATION.cff)
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
authors:
- family-names: "Jensen"
given-names: "Adam R."
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5554-9856"
- family-names: "Anderson"
given-names: "Kevin"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1166-7957"
title: "twoaxistracking"
url: "https://github.com/pvlib/twoaxistracking"
preferred-citation:
type: article
authors:
- family-names: "Jensen"
given-names: "Adam R."
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5554-9856"
- family-names: "Sifnaios"
given-names: "Ioannis"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0933-2952"
- family-names: "Anderson"
given-names: "Kevin"
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1166-7957"
doi: "10.1016/j.mex.2022.101876"
journal: "MethodsX"
month: 10
start: 101876 # First page number
title: "twoaxistracking – a python package for simulating self-shading of two-axis tracking solar collectors"
volume: 9
year: 2022
Owner metadata
- Name: pvlib
- Login: pvlib
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- Kind: organization
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- Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11037261?v=4
- Repositories: 7
- Last ynced at: 2024-03-25T20:48:50.039Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/pvlib
GitHub Events
Total
- Create event: 13
- Release event: 5
- Issues event: 5
- Watch event: 3
- Delete event: 9
- Issue comment event: 17
- Push event: 29
- Gollum event: 1
- Pull request event: 19
- Pull request review event: 19
- Pull request review comment event: 12
- Fork event: 2
Last Year
- Create event: 9
- Release event: 2
- Issues event: 4
- Watch event: 1
- Delete event: 6
- Issue comment event: 12
- Push event: 17
- Gollum event: 1
- Pull request review event: 8
- Pull request review comment event: 4
- Pull request event: 12
- Fork event: 2
Committers metadata
Last synced: 12 days ago
Total Commits: 133
Total Committers: 5
Avg Commits per committer: 26.6
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.068
Commits in past year: 9
Committers in past year: 2
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 4.5
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.111
| Name | Commits | |
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| Adam R. Jensen | 3****n | 124 |
| Kevin Anderson | k****n@n****v | 4 |
| Kevin Anderson | 5****l | 3 |
| Echedey Luis | 8****s | 1 |
| Cliff Hansen | c****e@s****v | 1 |
Committer domains:
- sandia.gov: 1
- nrel.gov: 1
Issue and Pull Request metadata
Last synced: 3 months ago
Total issues: 24
Total pull requests: 68
Average time to close issues: about 1 month
Average time to close pull requests: 8 days
Total issue authors: 2
Total pull request authors: 3
Average comments per issue: 0.96
Average comments per pull request: 1.25
Merged pull request: 63
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0
Past year issues: 5
Past year pull requests: 33
Past year average time to close issues: about 2 months
Past year average time to close pull requests: 5 days
Past year issue authors: 1
Past year pull request authors: 2
Past year average comments per issue: 0.2
Past year average comments per pull request: 1.48
Past year merged pull request: 29
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0
Top Issue Authors
- AdamRJensen (20)
- kandersolar (4)
Top Pull Request Authors
- AdamRJensen (57)
- kandersolar (9)
- echedey-ls (2)
Top Issue Labels
- enhancement (3)
- bug (2)
- documentation (2)
Top Pull Request Labels
- testing (8)
- documentation (8)
- release (7)
- enhancement (6)
- bug (4)
- development_workflow (2)
Package metadata
- Total packages: 2
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Total downloads:
- pypi: 13 last-month
- Total dependent packages: 0 (may contain duplicates)
- Total dependent repositories: 1 (may contain duplicates)
- Total versions: 22
- Total maintainers: 1
proxy.golang.org: github.com/pvlib/twoaxistracking
- Homepage:
- Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pvlib/twoaxistracking#section-documentation
- Licenses: bsd-3-clause
- Latest release: v0.2.5 (published about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-02T00:02:36.356Z (25 days ago)
- Versions: 12
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 5.395%
- Average: 5.576%
- Dependent repos count: 5.758%
pypi.org: twoaxistracking
twoaxistracking is a python package for simulating two-axis tracking solar collectors, particularly self-shading.
- Homepage: https://github.com/pvlib/twoaxistracking
- Documentation: https://twoaxistracking.readthedocs.io
- Licenses: BSD License
- Latest release: 0.2.5 (published about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-04T11:22:44.855Z (22 days ago)
- Versions: 10
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 1
- Downloads: 13 Last month
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Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 7.373%
- Forks count: 16.958%
- Stargazers count: 20.382%
- Dependent repos count: 22.233%
- Average: 22.572%
- Downloads: 45.916%
- Maintainers (1)
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