End-to-end Solar Energy Optimization Platform and Scalability Test

Utilities and aggregators are facing operational challenges due to the rising integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), especially behind-the-meter solar or edge devices to the grid. This paper provides detailed information on the End-to-end Solar Energy Optimization Platform (ESEOP), including internal communication architecture, information architecture, and a visualization dashboard. ESEOP acts as a centralized platform to communicate and control edge devices to mitigate adverse impacts. The design of ESEOP aims to bridge the gap between utility enterprise systems and customer DER management systems. ESEOP was developed with the necessary interfaces to integrate with edge devices. The ESEOP prototype is on the cloud server. The project team initially performed an end-to-end communication test and passed all requirements. This paper also provides a setup for cloud-to-cloud scalability tests with the data simulator. Results from the scalability test met and exceeded the performance targets of this project. This paper demonstrates the technological feasibility of ESEOP on a large scale and paves the way for future scalable deployments.