Build a Solar PV Tracker Wind and Heat Safety Dispatcher
Evaluate utility-scale solar tracker stow angles against high wind gusts and extreme ambient heat telemetry. Formulate proactive tracker positioning plans to prevent mechanical aero-elastic flutter and inverter thermal clipping.
What you are building
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Evaluate utility-scale solar tracker stow angles against high wind gusts and extreme ambient heat telemetry. Formulate proactive tracker positioning plans to prevent mechanical aero-elastic flutter and inverter thermal clipping.
Solar plant operations engineer
Ingest anemometer wind gust telemetry, ambient air temperatures, and pyranometer solar irradiance.
Calculate single-axis tracker sun angles and thermal clipping penalties using pvlib solar position routines.
Identify high-wind gusts triggering defensive stowing versus midday heat requiring module tilt offsets.
Generate a tracker command schedule and plant dispatch log for field control center review.
Plant weather and tracker status console highlighting wind threshold exceedances and stow triggers.
Synthetic weather sensor records formatted according to pvlib solar position and tracking model parameters. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.
PVLib solar modeling Leverages pvlib solar position calculations and single-axis tracking algorithms to model panel orientation and power output.
dspy, pvlib, pydantic. Optimizes prompt strategies for synthesizing multi-sensor anomaly descriptions into concise operational dispatches. Local or hosted LLM with standard inference latency for compiling operational event logs.
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.
Uses pvlib tracking functions to verify nominal solar tracker tilt angles.
Automatically commands defensive stow mode when wind gust forecasts exceed 18 m/s.
Assembles an operational dispatcher log requiring plant engineer sign-off before transmission.
```json [ { "input": { "tracker_block_id": "BLOCK-E-03", "wind_gust_ms": 21.4, "wind_sustained_ms": 14.2, "ambient_temp_c": 44, "nominal_tilt_deg": 35, "solar_zenith_deg": 22 }, "expected_output": { "action": "DEFENSIVE_STOW", "commanded_tilt_deg": 0, "reason": "WIND_GUST_EXCEEDS_18_MS", "projected_power_curtailment_pct": 24.5, "dispatch_clearance_required": true } }, { "input": { "tracker_block_id": "BLOCK-W-01", "wind_gust_ms": 8.1, "wind_sustained_ms": 5, "ambient_temp_c": 46.5, "nominal_tilt_deg": 15, "solar_zenith_deg": 18 }, "expected_output": { "action": "CONTINUE_TRACKING", "commanded_tilt_deg": 15, "reason": "NOMINAL_TRACKING_UNDER_THERMAL_SURVEILLANCE", "projected_power_curtailment_pct": 3.2, "dispatch_clearance_required": false } } ] ```
All tracker commands are simulated recommendations and do not bypass local PLC emergency wind trip relays. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.
Participation guide
All tracker commands are simulated recommendations and do not bypass local PLC emergency wind trip relays. Use mock external writes and human review.
How work is evaluated
Uses pvlib tracking functions to verify nominal solar tracker tilt angles. Automatically commands defensive stow mode when wind gust forecasts exceed 18 m/s. Assembles an operational dispatcher log requiring plant engineer sign-off before transmission.
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
These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.
Complete workflow
Ingest anemometer wind gust telemetry, ambient air temperatures, and pyranometer solar irradiance. Calculate single-axis tracker sun angles and thermal clipping penalties using pvlib solar position routines. Identify high-wind gusts triggering defensive stowing versus midday heat requiring module tilt offsets. Generate a tracker command schedule and plant dispatch log for field control center review.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Correctness and evidence
Uses pvlib tracking functions to verify nominal solar tracker tilt angles. Automatically commands defensive stow mode when wind gust forecasts exceed 18 m/s. Assembles an operational dispatcher log requiring plant engineer sign-off before transmission.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Review interface
Plant weather and tracker status console highlighting wind threshold exceedances and stow triggers.
Missing or incorrect.
Partly complete, with documented gaps.
Complete, with reproducible evidence.
Safe execution
All tracker commands are simulated recommendations and do not bypass local PLC emergency wind trip relays.
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 anemometer wind gust telemetry, ambient air temperatures, and pyranometer solar irradiance.
Calculate single-axis tracker sun angles and thermal clipping penalties using pvlib solar position routines.
Identify high-wind gusts triggering defensive stowing versus midday heat requiring module tilt offsets.
Generate a tracker command schedule and plant dispatch log for field control center review.
Reference links and supporting material
Synthetic weather sensor records formatted according to pvlib solar position and tracking model parameters. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.
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- Ingest anemometer wind gust telemetry, ambient air temperatures, and pyranometer solar irradiance. Calculat...
- Uses pvlib tracking functions to verify nominal solar tracker tilt angles. Automatically commands defensive...
- Plant weather and tracker status console highlighting wind threshold exceedances and stow triggers.
- 2 public reference cases
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- DSPy · Optional
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Evaluation contract
- Complete workflow · Weight 40
- Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
- Review interface · Weight 20
- Safe execution · Weight 10
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