PySAM Package

https://nrel-pysam.readthedocs.io

• Provides a wrapper around the SAM library that groups together the C API functions by technology or financial model into modules.
• Includes error-checking, explicit input and output definition, and conversion between Python data types.
• PySAM modules are compatible with PySSC, which is included as a subpackage. PySSC is the original wrapper used by SAM's code generator.
• Automatically assign default values to input parameters from SAM's default value database.
• Built-in documentation of models and parameters.

Requirements

1. Python 3.8 - 3.13, 64 bit
2. Operating system:
   • MacOSX 10.7+
   • Most Linux
   • Windows 7, x64
3. CMake 3.20+

Installing

1. PyPi:

   pip install nrel-pysam
   

2. Anaconda (Versions > 1.2.1, < 6.0.0 only):

   conda install -c nrel nrel-pysam
   

May not be compatible with different builds of the CPython reference interpreter, and not with alternative interpreters such as PyPy, IronPython or Jython

Usage Examples

• Examples

Citing this package

PySAM . National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Golden, CO. Accessed . https://github.com/nrel/pysam