PV production data with ancillary PV and meteorological data including solar radiation measurements from FMI's outdoor solar laboratories in Helsinki, Kuopio and Sodankylä (Finland) starting from August 2015 and ending Dec 2021
Description
The data is described in Karhu et al. (2025) (submitted to Geoscience Data Journal)
PV power, ancillary and meteorological data for each PV system are organised in their respective, semicolon separated, csv-files with unique headers explaining the variables:
- FMI_Helsinki_PV.csv
- FMI_Kuopio_PV.csv
- FMI_Sodankyla_20deg_PV.csv
- FMI_Sodankyla_90deg_PV.csv
Below is an example how to read the datafiles to a pandas dataframe with python. Please note, that the header lengths vary:
- Helsinki and Kuopio: 63
- Sodankylä: 93
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import pandas as pd
dtype_dict = {'Remarks': str}
df = pd.read_csv('FMI_Sodankyla_20deg_PV.csv', sep=';', parse_dates=['utctime'], index_col=['utctime'], dtype=dtype_dict, header=93)
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Hourly photographs of the Sodankylä modules are in a tarball:
- Sodankyla_module_images_2018-2021.tar.gz
Metadata, additional photographs of the PV sites and their surroundings as well as data sheets and technical information of the modules and inverters can be found in a separate tarball:
- siteinfo_and_metadata.tar.gz
Show moreYear of publication
2025
Authors
Finnish Meteorological Institute - Publisher
Karhu, Juha A. and Lindfors Anders - Creator
Other information
Fields of science
Geosciences
Language
English
Open access
Open
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Keywords
INSPIRE theme: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, photocoltaics, PV output, ancillary data, snow, quality controlRelated to this research data
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PV production data with ancillary PV and meteorological data including solar radiation measurements from FMI's outdoor solar laboratories in Helsinki, Kuopio and Sodankylä (Finland) starting from August 2015 and ending Dec 2021