Becquerel's innovation, Alfrödull, promotes the green transition by freeing up grid capacity in Sweden's low-voltage transmission grid using AI-based remote analysis. By mapping, segmenting, and calculating the orientation of solar cell systems, we offer grid owners high-resolution production simulations of solar energy that can be used to avoid costly expansions and save millions of kronor in infrastructure costs.
Challenges for the electricity grid of the future
Network operators usually lack information about the orientation of different solar cell systems and base their operational and network planning on the assumption that all installations can deliver their maximum capacity at the same time, i.e. in the middle of the day.
In practice, this is impossible, as distributed solar cell systems are almost always installed on roofs and thus follow the varying design of the roofs, which leads to different production profiles.
This creates a knowledge gap that obscures the effect of solar energy on the electricity grid and limits the transition to a greener energy mix.
