adding solar cells to PVLIB and modeling them

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I am new to Pvlib and just started few days ago. We have four different solar cells installed in our university. I have the specifications of the four cells including Isc, Voc, Vmpp, Impp etc. I want to add these cells into the PVlib library and then do further modeling on each of them. Can you please guide me how to proceed. I just need to know that how can I use the specifications of each solar cell mentioned below to integrate them with pvlib. In the cec and sandia database we only have silicon based solar cells. I would be grateful for your assistance.

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Mark Mikofski On

If you only have Voc, Isc, Imp, & Vmp at STC conditions you may be able to use the pv parameter estimation functions but you will have difficulty coming up with temperature coefficients, but perhaps you have those already separately? Then use calcparams_<model> where model is the same as what you estimated parameters for, one of CEC, PVsyst, Sandia, or DeSoto. This will give you the temperature and irradiance specific parameters to use in singlediode to get max power (or any operating point) for each timestep corresponding to the temperatures and irradiances of interest.