Cloud Computing In Energy Market Trends
Decentralized Energy and Microgrids:
- Cloud computing fuels the rise of decentralized models for energy, such as microgrids. Cloud-based platforms could run and manage local grids—usually powered by renewables—comprehensively. Cloud facilitates data exchange from source to device between DERs: solar panels, wind turbines, and battery storage devices in a microgrid. Cloud-based control systems can be implemented to guarantee grid stability and thus optimize energy flows within the microgrid. Thus, this opens possibilities for communities and businesses to develop sustainable energy solutions that can increase energy self-sufficiency and resilience to power outages in remote areas.