Build a Solar Field Soiling and Desalinated Wash Water Dispatcher
Balance utility-scale photovoltaic soiling losses against desalinated wash water trucking costs. Determine optimal cleaning schedules for robotic and manual wash fleets under desert dust conditions.
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Balance utility-scale photovoltaic soiling losses against desalinated wash water trucking costs. Determine optimal cleaning schedules for robotic and manual wash fleets under desert dust conditions.
Solar operations and maintenance manager
Ingest pyranometer telemetry, inverter power outputs, and regional dust storm weather alerts.
Compute daily soiling loss derate factors using pvlib python soiling and transposition models.
Calculate the economic tipping point where accumulated generation revenue losses exceed desalinated wash water logistics expenses.
Generate a spatial wash route map and water tanker reservation schedule for field maintenance teams.
An interactive map of solar array tracker blocks showing soiling percentage, cleaning truck routes, and water volume balances.
Create normalized daily JSON feeds containing plane-of-array irradiance, power output, soiling ratio, and water tanker truck availability. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
PVLib solar modeling Applies solar irradiance transposition and PV module performance degradation functions provided in pvlib python.
ray-serve, pvlib, fastapi. Serves distributed batch simulations over thousands of solar string telemetry records with high throughput and low latency. Local or hosted LLM used for summarizing multi-inverter soiling patterns and drafting dispatch instructions.
Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.
Accurately calculates soiling derate percentage across all tracker blocks using pyranometer baseline ratios.
Prevents dispatching water wash crews when forecast ambient wind speeds exceed 25 km/h to avoid rapid re-soiling.
Enforces maximum wash water allocation based on local on-site tank buffer volumes without dipping into emergency reserves.
```json [ { "input": { "block_id": "PV-Block-A4", "soiling_ratio": 0.86, "ppa_tariff_usd_kwh": 0.024, "daily_generation_mwh": 140, "wash_water_cost_usd_m3": 3.5, "water_required_m3": 12 }, "expected_output": { "daily_revenue_loss_usd": 470.4, "cleaning_cost_usd": 42, "dispatch_cleaning": true, "payback_days": 1 } }, { "input": { "block_id": "PV-Block-B2", "soiling_ratio": 0.97, "ppa_tariff_usd_kwh": 0.024, "daily_generation_mwh": 140, "wash_water_cost_usd_m3": 3.5, "water_required_m3": 12 }, "expected_output": { "daily_revenue_loss_usd": 100.8, "cleaning_cost_usd": 42, "dispatch_cleaning": false, "payback_days": 3 } } ] ```
Generates vehicle routing and cleaning recommendations. Does not trigger automated washing systems or operate heavy vehicles. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
Generates vehicle routing and cleaning recommendations. Does not trigger automated washing systems or operate heavy vehicles. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Accurately calculates soiling derate percentage across all tracker blocks using pyranometer baseline ratios. Prevents dispatching water wash crews when forecast ambient wind speeds exceed 25 km/h to avoid rapid re-soiling. Enforces maximum wash water allocation based on local on-site tank buffer volumes without dipping into emergency reserves.
Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.
Challenge datasets
Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.
How submissions are scored
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Complete workflow
Ingest pyranometer telemetry, inverter power outputs, and regional dust storm weather alerts. Compute daily soiling loss derate factors using pvlib python soiling and transposition models. Calculate the economic tipping point where accumulated generation revenue losses exceed desalinated wash water logistics expenses. Generate a spatial wash route map and water tanker reservation schedule for field maintenance teams.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Accurately calculates soiling derate percentage across all tracker blocks using pyranometer baseline ratios. Prevents dispatching water wash crews when forecast ambient wind speeds exceed 25 km/h to avoid rapid re-soiling. Enforces maximum wash water allocation based on local on-site tank buffer volumes without dipping into emergency reserves.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
An interactive map of solar array tracker blocks showing soiling percentage, cleaning truck routes, and water volume balances.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
Generates vehicle routing and cleaning recommendations. Does not trigger automated washing systems or operate heavy vehicles.
This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.
What you should walk away with
Ingest pyranometer telemetry, inverter power outputs, and regional dust storm weather alerts.
Compute daily soiling loss derate factors using pvlib python soiling and transposition models.
Calculate the economic tipping point where accumulated generation revenue losses exceed desalinated wash water logistics expenses.
Generate a spatial wash route map and water tanker reservation schedule for field maintenance teams.
Reference links and supporting material
Create normalized daily JSON feeds containing plane-of-array irradiance, power output, soiling ratio, and water tanker truck availability. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
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- Ingest pyranometer telemetry, inverter power outputs, and regional dust storm weather alerts. Compute daily...
- Accurately calculates soiling derate percentage across all tracker blocks using pyranometer baseline ratios...
- An interactive map of solar array tracker blocks showing soiling percentage, cleaning truck routes, and wat...
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- Complete workflow · Weight 40
- Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
- Review interface · Weight 20
- Safe execution · Weight 10
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