Valencia Workshop on Software Tools for PV Hybrid Design and Simulation

PVPS Task 11 has been studying the current state of the art in software design and simulation tools for PV hybrid and mini-grid systems. It has surveyed expert users to determine which software tools they use and it has reviewed the features and capabilities of the most commonly used tools. To disseminate its results to a wider audience and advance the state of the art, Task 11 organized a Workshop at the 23rd European PVSEC in September 2008.  The Workshop brought together developers of software tools and expert users to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the different tools, suitability of tools for different tasks, and what is needed for the next generation of software tools.  Most of the presentations at the Workshop can be downloaded by following the links below.  

Workshop Agenda

INTRODUCTION (15 minutes):

0) Introduction and welcome (Workshop Chair)

1) Overview of design tools based on Task 11 work (Georg Bopp)

DEVELOPERS POINT OF VIEW (90 minutes):

A) Free, generally available tools

2) NREL tools (Homer, Vipor, Hybrid 2) (Benjamin Kroposki, NREL)

3)   RETscreen (Yves Poissant, NRCan)

B) Commercial or limited availability tools

4) PVSOL (Thomas Hawlitzki, Valentin Software)

5) IPSYS (Oliver Gehrke, RISO)

C. Standard commercial system simulators

6) Modelica/Dymola based tools Overview Hybrid Simulation with Dymola (Matthias Vetter, Fraunhofer ISE)

7) Matlab/Simulink based tools (HySys) (A. Costa, CIEMAT)

USERS POINT OF VIEW (30 minutes)

8) Commercial users - system designers (Xavier Vallve, TTA)

9) Research institutions (Luis Arribas, CIEMAT)

10) Hardware and software developers (Simon Schwunk, Fraunhofer ISE)