rdtools.analysis_chains.TrendAnalysis.plot_pv_vs_irradiance

TrendAnalysis.plot_pv_vs_irradiance(case, alpha=0.01, **kwargs)

Plot PV energy vs irradiance, useful in diagnosing things like timezone problems or transposition errors.

Parameters:
  • case (str) -- The plane of array irradiance type to plot, allowed values are 'sensor' and 'clearsky'

  • alpha (float) -- transparency of the scatter plot

  • kwargs -- Extra parameters passed to matplotlib.pyplot.axis.plot()

Return type:

matplotlib.figure.Figure