0.4.4

v0.4.4 (February 18, 2017)

Enhancements

• Added Anton Driesse Inverter database and made compatible with
  pvsystem.retrieve_sam. (:issue:169)
• Ported Anton Driesse Inverter model from PV_LIB Toolbox. (:issue:160)
• Added Kasten pyrheliometric formula to calculate Linke turbidity factors with
  improvements by Ineichen and Perez to extend range of air mass (:issue:278)
• Added coefficients for CIGS and a-Si modules types to the
  first_solar_spectral_correction function (:issue:308)

API Changes

• Change PVSystem default module_parameters and inverter_parameters to
  empty dict. Code that relied on these attributes being None or raising
  a TypeError will need to be updated. (issue:294)

Documentation

• Fixes the Forecasting page's broken links to the tutorials.
• Fixes the Forecasting page's broken examples. (:issue:299)
• Fixes broken Classes link in the v0.3.0 documentation.

Bug fixes

• Resolved several issues with the forecast module tests. Library import
  errors were resolved by prioritizing the conda-forge channel over the
  default channel. Stalled ci runs were resolved by adding a timeout to
  the HRRR_ESRL test. (:issue:293)
• Fixed issue with irradiance jupyter notebook tutorial. (:issue:309)

Contributors

• Will Holmgren
• Volker Beutner
• Mark Mikofski
• Anton Driesse
• Mitchell Lee