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Solaris AI - cooling as flexibility.

AI-powered cooling flexibility for solar-driven cities. Built for Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Solaris AI helps operators shift cooling demand into solar-rich hours using demand forecasting, thermal storage dispatch, comfort-aware optimization, and real-time weather and solar signals.

Solaris AI command center showing cooling demand, solar opportunity, peak shift potential, and comfort compliance
10:00-16:00solar opportunity window
25%peak-demand shift target
85%+comfort threshold protected
0.42 kgCO2 factor per shifted kWh
THE OPPORTUNITY

In solar-heavy cities, the cleanest electricity is often available before the highest cooling pressure hits. Solaris turns that timing mismatch into an operating strategy.

Instead of treating cooling as a fixed demand curve, it treats district plants, towers, hotels, malls, campuses, and thermal storage as a flexible portfolio that can absorb solar and reduce peak-risk pressure without sacrificing comfort.

WHAT IT DOES

Solar-aware dispatch for cooling operators.

01

Forecasts cooling demand

Solaris models cooling load from Gulf-climate signals: temperature, humidity, solar radiation, and apparent-temperature pressure. Operators see demand risk before it becomes grid stress.

02

Dispatches thermal storage

The optimizer schedules thermal energy storage charging during solar-rich windows and releases that flexibility when peak-risk cooling hours arrive.

03

Keeps comfort inside the guardrails

Solaris is not a blunt load-shed tool. It shifts cooling demand while maintaining zone comfort above the safety threshold, making flexibility operationally usable.

04

Turns flexibility into credits

Shifted kWh becomes Cooling Flex Credits, with bonus treatment when load is moved into high-solar-alignment hours and MRV exports for reporting.

Optimization view: live demand forecast, Solaris AI mode, solar utilization, comfort compliance, active schedules, and shifted cooling curve.
Optimization view: live demand forecast, Solaris AI mode, solar utilization, comfort compliance, active schedules, and shifted cooling curve.
OPTIMIZATION ENGINE

Demand curves become dispatch plans.

Solaris lets operators compare baseline demand against the AI plan, then read the outcome as peak reduction, solar utilization, comfort compliance, and active pre-cool or storage schedules. The result is a control-room view of cooling flexibility instead of another static energy dashboard.

OPTIMIZATION FLOW

From forecast to flex credit.

Solaris identifies solar-rich windows, schedules pre-cooling two hours before peak-risk periods, shifts up to 25% of peak demand into off-peak hours, and keeps comfort above the operational safety threshold.

  1. 01Ingest weather, solar, and cooling-asset state
  2. 02Forecast demand risk across plants, towers, hotels, malls, and campuses
  3. 03Schedule pre-cooling and TES charge or discharge windows
  4. 04Measure shifted kWh against the baseline curve
  5. 05Issue flex-credit and CO2 impact records for MRV export
Insights and MRV view: solar absorbed, comfort maintained, baseline-versus-optimized curves, performance trends, and report export.
Insights and MRV view: solar absorbed, comfort maintained, baseline-versus-optimized curves, performance trends, and report export.
Flex Credits view: shifted kWh, credits earned, CO2 avoided, solar alignment, asset leaderboard, and credit methodology.
Flex Credits view: shifted kWh, credits earned, CO2 avoided, solar alignment, asset leaderboard, and credit methodology.
FLEX CREDITS

Cooling flexibility becomes accountable value.

The credit layer converts shifted cooling demand into measurable energy, emissions, and solar-alignment records. Operators can see which assets created flexibility, how credits were calculated, and where the day's impact came from.

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DEMAND FORECASTINGTHERMAL STORAGE DISPATCHDIGITAL TWINWEATHER SIGNALSSOLAR ALIGNMENTCOMFORT OPTIMIZATIONFLEX CREDITSMRV EXPORTS
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