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 bifacial solar pvlib pv solar-power
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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 (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-17T16:03:36.000Z (10 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-19T14:12:49.086Z (8 days ago)
- Topics: photovoltaics, python, renewable-energy, solar-energy
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://twoaxistracking.readthedocs.io
- Size: 4.1 MB
- Stars: 9
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 6
- Open Issues: 5
- 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
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- Name: pvlib
- Login: pvlib
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- Kind: organization
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- Repositories: 7
- Last ynced at: 2024-03-25T20:48:50.039Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/pvlib
GitHub Events
Total
- Create event: 10
- Release event: 5
- Issues event: 4
- Watch event: 2
- Delete event: 4
- Issue comment event: 16
- Push event: 28
- Gollum event: 1
- Pull request event: 14
- Pull request review event: 19
- Pull request review comment event: 12
- Fork event: 2
Last Year
- Create event: 10
- Release event: 5
- Issues event: 4
- Watch event: 2
- Delete event: 4
- Issue comment event: 16
- Push event: 28
- Gollum event: 1
- Pull request event: 14
- Pull request review event: 19
- Pull request review comment event: 12
- Fork event: 2
Committers metadata
Last synced: 6 days ago
Total Commits: 128
Total Committers: 5
Avg Commits per committer: 25.6
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.07
Commits in past year: 15
Committers in past year: 3
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 5.0
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.2
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Adam R. Jensen | 3****n | 119 |
Kevin Anderson | k****n@n****v | 4 |
Kevin Anderson | 5****l | 3 |
Echedey Luis | 8****s | 1 |
Cliff Hansen | c****e@s****v | 1 |
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- nrel.gov: 1
Issue and Pull Request metadata
Last synced: 2 days ago
Total issues: 23
Total pull requests: 46
Average time to close issues: about 1 month
Average time to close pull requests: 9 days
Total issue authors: 2
Total pull request authors: 3
Average comments per issue: 1.0
Average comments per pull request: 1.33
Merged pull request: 45
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0
Past year issues: 5
Past year pull requests: 17
Past year average time to close issues: 20 days
Past year average time to close pull requests: 4 days
Past year issue authors: 1
Past year pull request authors: 3
Past year average comments per issue: 0.2
Past year average comments per pull request: 1.59
Past year merged pull request: 16
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0
Top Issue Authors
- AdamRJensen (19)
- kandersolar (4)
Top Pull Request Authors
- AdamRJensen (38)
- kandersolar (7)
- echedey-ls (1)
Top Issue Labels
- enhancement (3)
- bug (2)
- documentation (2)
- wontfix (2)
Top Pull Request Labels
- documentation (8)
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- testing (6)
- enhancement (6)
- bug (4)
- development_workflow (2)
Package metadata
- Total packages: 1
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Total downloads:
- pypi: 525 last-month
- Total dependent packages: 0
- Total dependent repositories: 1
- Total versions: 10
- Total maintainers: 1
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 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-25T14:32:24.270Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 10
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 1
- Downloads: 525 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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