Get solar irradiation and PV generation from PVGIS

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As mentioned in the documentation PV generation needs to be provided as a file.
Option 2 (not operational) proposes calculating it based on pvlib.

Another option would be using the PVGIS API.
PVGIS is a freely available tool developed by the European Comission Joint Research Center. I have used their API previously which was hassle-free.
They use quite the advanced PV model and a number of different solar radiation datasets. Details can be found here.

User input would only have to specify the location of the PV system and some details (mounting, PV technology, system loss...).
The API returns hourly PV generation data as CSV or JSON.