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pvlib

pvlib

A set of documented functions for simulating the performance of photovoltaic energy systems.
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pvlib has 1.3M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.15.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2015.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of h5py, numpy and pandas. It is used by 101 tracked packages, including solarfactors, pvanalytics and energysystemmodels.

GitHub topics include solar-energy, renewable-energy and renewables.

Downloads
Day
52.6K
Week
311.8K
Month
1.3M
Stars
1.6K
Forks
1.2K
Issues
225
Version
0.15.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
74
Adoption
80
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,279,708
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,279,708
Stars
1,614
Stars per 1k downloads
1.26
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
44,540
Month daily avg
42,657
Momentum
+4.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
20 days ago
Total releases
72
Releases/year
6.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
159
Monthly downloads
1,279,708
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
100
 
Issue Burden
139.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
94.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 31.5K
Windows 298
macOS 112

Python Versions

3.11
48.1% 14.4K
3.12
34.4% 10.3K
3.7
7.5% 2.3K
3.13
5.1% 1.5K
3.10
4.9% 1.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
19.2K
2. NL NL
5.8K
3. IE IE
1.9K
4. ES ES
1.2K
5. DE DE
1.1K
6. JP JP
755
7. FR FR
376
8. AU AU
358
9. GB GB
201
10. SG SG
196
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
April 20, 2015
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
0.15.2
Total Releases
72
Contributors
159
Open PRs
43
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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