Meteo

To see the meteorological data, you need to find the project location on the map and select Use as location. 

The irradiance, temperature, wind speed, and horizon profile data is retrieved automatically from PVGIS as our default data source. This data is presented in graphs: 

Learn more about how this data is calculated in the PVcase Yield model documentation.

Changing the data source

To change the Meteo data source, click on Change in the Data source section. 

In the pop-up that will appear, select CSV file and click Continue.

In the next pop-up, you will be able to select and set up your CSV file. 

To do so, follow the steps below: 

1. Select the CSV file.
2. Select the file’s time zone or the project location time zone.
3. Add start and end time intervals.
4. Map the data fields from the custom CSV file to match PVcase Yield required data fields.
5. Click Confirm setup

You can see all the steps below:

Changing the ground albedo

PVcase defaults the albedo value to 0.2. However, you can modify this value or input the monthly albedo values: just click on Change in the Ground albedo section, as shown below.