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CEC module library is behind current version in SAM

See original GitHub issue

As discussed in https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/discussions/1344, the CEC module table shipped with pvlib (SAM 2018.11.11 r2, 1/3/2019) is behind the latest version shipped with SAM (SAM 2020.2.29 r3, 11/25/2020).

@mikofski in https://github.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/issues/440 you brought up pvfree – any thoughts there this time around?

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Created 2 years ago
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cwhansecommented, Mar 24, 2022

As an interim, we could update the file distributed with pvlib-python to the current SAM release.

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kanderso-nrelcommented, Jan 24, 2022

library updates don’t require a pvlib re-release if the two are decoupled

+1. But that feels like a breaking change

Perhaps that concern could be addressed by pvfree exposing multiple versions of the CEC table via a new API parameter, similar to how the PSM3 API has tmy-2018 and such. Then code that specifies cecdb='2018.11.11' (or whatever) would behave the same even after a new version of the table is added.

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