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Acknowledgments

The development of the Photovoltaic Geographic Information System (PVGIS) 6 owes much to the collaboration and generosity of several key individuals. Beside the support from the PVGIS Team itself and staff of the Renewable Energies Unit, expert insights on a voluntary basis significantly enhanced the project's scope and impact.

Gratitude to the following contributors:

  • JRC Permanent & Contract Staff

    • Ewan Dunlop

  • Project submission support from external contractors

    • Daniel Sanchez

  • IT Support & Technical Guidance

    • Alessandro Pirovano
    • Cristian Domicoli
    • Alberto De Boni
    • Gianpiero Arcaro
    • Carlo Landi
    • Alessandro Parodi
    • Alexandre Cassela
    • Luis Alvar
    • Vasilis Syrris
    • EuroHPC

  • Development Contributions

    Direct & indirect involvement with significant impact in shaping the source code

    • Sepand Kashani
    • Nikolaos Ziogas
    • Gregor Trefalt
    • Richard Hochenberger
    • Ismael Medina Suarez
    • Romain Besseau
    • Oliver Hurtig
    • Karsten Fennig
    • Martin Durant
    • Adam Jensen
    • Kevin Anderson
    • Panagiotis Mavrogiorgos past support for PVGIS version 5

  • Scientific support

    • Ruben Urraca
    • Blago Mihaylov
    • Diego Pavanello
    • Joerg Trentmann
    • Uwe Pfeifroth

Special Recognition

EuroHPC

For granting access to the MeluXina supercomputer, in which the first experiments of fine-chunked in-space and contiguous in-time large time series were performed.

Joerg Trentmann & Uwe Pfeifroth (DWD)

For thoroughly reviewing and discussing together early versions of the source code for fundamental functions in solar irradiance, and for invaluable support on working with solar irradiance time series from the SARAHx climate records.

Karsten Fennig (DWD)

In recognition of his deep technical insight into the nature of SARAH climate records and his thorough discussion of the challenges involved in rapidly retrieving large time-series datasets from compressed files.

Sepand Kashani (previously EPFL | core developer in pyxu)

For early discussions and guidance in shaping a modern high-performance Python-based software architecture that set the technical foundation for PVGIS 6.

Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas (ETH Zürich)

For early problem-solving insights around high-performance computing with Python and optimization strategies.

Gregor Trefalt & Richard Hochenberger

For assistance in selecting the right software stack and basic concepts behind data model structures in Python.

Panagiotis Mavrogiorgos

For setting the first seeds for an Open-Source version of PVGIS with the development of internal Python-based tooling for PVGIS version 5.

Ruben Urraca (JRC)

For his exceptional contributions to better understand both theoretical and practical aspects of solar science, critical reviews, and discussions shaping the performance analysis workflow and ensuring scientific rigor.

Blago Mihaylov & Diego Pavanello (JRC)

For support in better understanding and implementing functions for the spectral mismatch effect.

Martin Durant (Dask, Zarr)
Adam Jensen & Kevin Anderson (pvlib)

For their invaluable time contributing to a developers meeting, suggesting problem-solving ideas.

Lavanya Malarkannan (scientist at the National Physical Laboratory)

For developing the Python implementation of the bifacial method in this version of PVGIS.

The PVGIS team

Developers:

  • Nikos Alexandris - Lead (former staff)
  • Alexandros Falangas
  • Olympia Gounari
  • Alba Santos (former trainee)

Scientific team:

  • Nigel Taylor
  • Ana Martinez
  • Sandor Szabo