Meteorological data

These data is used to calculate shading losses and SOF. PVWATTS and PVGYS dialogs are not related with this meteo files. (PVWATTS and PVGYS dialogs are the same dialogs that you can open using your web browser.)

Choose a source to import meteorological data

  • Closest dataset (Same as PVWatts® dialog) or File ID
  • EPW Energy Plus weather file
  • TMY2 OR TMY3 file
  • Satel-light file (Europe)

Model info:

Selected meteo station or pixel grid:

  • Latitude, Longitude:
  • Elevation (m):
  • Timezone:
  • Location:
  • City:
  • State:
  • File_name:

Distance Meteo station - SketchUP model:

Notes:

  • Skelion require diffuse and global hourly horizontal irradiation values to make SOF plots and calculate shading derate.
  • If distance between Meteo station and model location is bigger than 20km it's recommended to use data from satellites.
  • Closest dataset:
    nsrdb gridded data is valid for United States and some other countries NSRDB TMY3 and TMY2 are data from weather stations around USA.
    International use solar resources from weather stations around the world
  • Satel-light file:
    Select all years from 1996 to 2000 diffuse and global irradiation to generate the tsv file. Skelion will do a tmy file with the most representative months.