Integrating Solar Infrastructure with Cloud Computing for Scalable Energy Solutions

Abstract

Infrastructure provides the foundational basis for the seamless delivery of energy generation and consumption services while connecting associated users to the wider integrated energy system. Solar energy in the form of photovoltaic panels is an increasingly attractive prospect as decentralized energy generation capacity scales up. However, distributed solar is often reliant on inefficient ad-hoc solutions with poor user interfaces and limited links to the larger integrated energy management systems. Additionally, solar energy's base generation capacity landscape is dependent on geographical factors that influence utilization. Cloud computing has enabled solutions in many sectors that are scalable, universal, and maintain low-cost operation. Cloud computing's cost effectiveness has enabled many solutions targeted at enabling efficient infrastructure in previously costly markets to be deployed alongside the associated physical infrastructure. Cloud computing, specifically focusing on user engagement and experience, cost structures of deployed technology, provision of critical infrastructure support, enabling universal solutions, and enabling services capable of supporting the wider energy landscape offers a unique perspective for integrating solar development across the world. Through ongoing work within the solar cooperative developer, these principles are applied to the solar energy landscape. Furthermore, if cloud computing principles are enabled, the reduced emphasis on geographical requirements could allow energy access motivations to be promoted alongside purely environmental drivers for solar development. This presents a unique reiteration potential within the associated solar development landscape. The cooperative is integrated carbon negative energy beyond experts capable of scaling deployment in energy systems globally