bifacial_radiance Training#

Jupyter Book#

For in depth Tutorials you can run online, see our jupyter-book Clicking on the rocket-icon on the top allows you to launch the journals on Google Colaboratory for interactive mode. Just uncomment the first line pip install ... to install the environment on each journal if you follow this mode.

Locally#

You can also run the tutorial locally with miniconda by following thes steps:

  1. Install miniconda.

  2. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/NREL/bifacial_radiance.git

  3. Create the environment and install the requirements. The repository includes a requirements.txt file that contains a list the packages needed to run this tutorial. To install them using conda run:

    conda create -n br_env jupyter -c conda-forge --file requirements.txt
conda activate br_env

    or you can install it with pip install bifacial_radiance as explained in the installation instructions into the environment.

  4. Start a Jupyter session:

    jupyter notebook

  5. Use the file explorer in Jupyter lab to browse to tutorials and start the first Tutorial.

Documentation#

We also have documentation in ReadTheDocs where you can find more details on the API functions.