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Installation Video

Silvana Ayala edited this page Mar 18, 2019 · 7 revisions

This video shows how to install the Bifacial_Radiance software, which is an open-source software toolkit that leverages the Radiance ray-trace software to generate scene geometries for evaluating bifacial system performance over the course of a year, from measured or typical meteorological irradiance data.

Here are some of the links used/mentioned during the video. Some of the software needed for running Bifacial_Eadiance gets updated occasionally and these links might stop working, so we suggest you google them and download the most updated version.

Bifacial_Radiance Github

Anaconda (Python environment)

Radiance Github, executable Release version

Radiance support files (Jaloxa)

PVLib Github

Bifacial_Radiance Wiki (examples of use and documentation)

Some common topics / explanations about how bifacial_radiance works:

Installation Video

World Coordinates

How the sensors work

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