My name is Carolina Crespo, I'm a PhD student at the University of Lisbon working on firm power for Iberia's future decarbonized grid.
This is a companion blog to my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 project with pvlib-python, titled "Standardizing Diffuse Irradiance Components and Extending ModelChain's Optical Loss Modeling". You can join the discussion on my project on GitHub. Official project description on the GSoC website.