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test failure because RREDC website has changed

See original GitHub issue

The test iotools/test_tmy.py::test_read_tmy3_remote started failing because of a 404 on the remote TMY file it tries to read:

https://dev.azure.com/solararbiter/pvlib python/_build/results?buildId=3664&view=logs&j=fc432b8b-e2e3-594e-d8b1-15597b6c1d62&t=309866e1-2cf4-5f00-3d0a-999fc3a0f279&l=112

The obvious fix would be to update the URL to wherever that file lives now, but I didn’t find it with a quick look around. It’s probably in the zipfiles at https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/data-sets/archives.html, but that’s not really an option unless we add unzipping functionality, which seems pretty out of scope.

We could have it read from the pvlib github repo instead via: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pvlib/pvlib-python/master/pvlib/data/723170TYA.CSV. Or just remove the test entirely if TMY files aren’t available from NREL via direct links anymore?

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Created 3 years ago
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kanderso-nrelcommented, Jun 29, 2020

@kanderso-nrel just to confirm, it is the case that the NSRDB will continue to contain site- and year-specific data for years prior to 2011?

Depends on what exactly you mean by NSRDB. As far as I am aware, the satellite-based product currently available at https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/ is unchanged and will continue to provide individual site- and year-specific data going back to 1998, as well as TMY data calculated from the 1998-present dataset. It is only the older TMY3 dataset calculated from ground station data that is being archived. Hopefully that’s unambiguous – if I’m still not getting to the point, maybe it would be best to email Manajit and Aron, the sources of all NSRDB truth 😃

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cwhansecommented, Jul 15, 2020

I agree.

Seconded

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