Simplifying Geospatial Workflows for PV Modeling with GeoGridFusion
Tobin Ford, Silvana Ovaitt, Martin Springer, Yazan J.K. Musleh, Mike Kempe · 2025
Growing demands to understand photovoltaic (PV) deployment and reliability across an expanding range of climates, along with increasing computational power, are driving the need for simplified computing tools that support large-scale analysis and geospatial workflows. While existing open-source libraries and PV system modeling tools offer extensive collections of empirical and physical models, they often lack the ability to scale to large geospatial datasets. The tool presented here, GeoGridFusion, enables PV modelers to store and utilize gridded geospatial data from sources such as NSRDB, PVGIS, and others. GeoGridFusion harmonizes diverse datasets, taxonomies, and nomenclatures, and includes utilities that support intuitive geospatial area selection.