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Training for people who will actually run the node

Each course ends with something you can measure, document or hand to an installer. No certification theatre, no vendor pitch.

Pathways

Six routes through the material

Free
Introductory

PV and storage basics for compute builders

Solar and Storage Foundations

  • Read a generation profile and explain daily and seasonal variation
  • Describe the role of inverters, metering and battery management
  • Identify which site data you can access read-only

3.5 hours

Free
Intermediate

Sizing generation against a controllable load

Solar and Storage Foundations

  • Estimate annual yield ranges and treat them as ranges
  • Separate battery reserve from daily cycled capacity
  • Explain why storage shifts energy without adding seasonal generation

4 hours

Free
Intermediate

Running local LLMs on hardware you own

Local AI and Edge Compute

  • Select model size and quantisation for a given node
  • Serve a model with sensible concurrency limits
  • Measure throughput and power draw together

5 hours

Coming Soon
Advanced

Edge vision pipelines for site data

Local AI and Edge Compute

  • Design a frame-rate and resolution budget from a power budget
  • Handle intermittent connectivity and local buffering
  • Document limitations of automated visual inspection

6 hours

Free
Intermediate

Workload classification and deferral

Energy-Aware Workload Design

  • Classify workloads by urgency and interruptibility
  • Write threshold-based deferral rules
  • Set an explicit battery reserve floor for compute

3 hours

Pilot
Advanced

Tariffs, export value and carbon signals

Energy-Aware Workload Design

  • Compare solar-first, lowest-cost and lowest-carbon policies
  • Model the trade-off between export value and self-consumption
  • Report outcomes without overstating savings

4.5 hours

Pilot
Intermediate

Node operations handbook

Sol Node Operator Pathway

  • Build a monitoring and alerting baseline
  • Run a safe update and rollback process
  • Produce a monthly energy and compute report

5.5 hours

Free
Introductory

Thermal management and node siting

Sol Node Operator Pathway

  • Assess ventilation, noise and ambient temperature
  • Log inlet temperature against workload
  • Recognise throttling in performance data

2.5 hours

Coming Soon
Advanced

Local AI for solar asset operators

Solar Site Intelligence

  • Structure inspection and performance data locally
  • Flag anomalies for human review, not automated action
  • Keep asset and customer data on site

6 hours

Free
Intermediate

Privacy and security for local AI nodes

Responsible Infrastructure and Safety

  • Apply least-privilege access to node services
  • Decide what data never leaves the site
  • Plan device identity and key handling

4 hours

Free
Introductory

Competence boundaries and commissioning

Responsible Infrastructure and Safety

  • Distinguish self-built compute from regulated electrical work
  • Prepare information a qualified installer will need
  • Document a commissioning and handover trail

2 hours

Pilot
Intermediate

Designing a credible six-week pilot

Energy-Aware Workload Design

  • Choose one workload and one measurable outcome
  • Define your baseline before changing anything
  • Write an honest pilot report with stated uncertainty

3 hours

Flagship course

The Solar AI Node Blueprint

Eight modules taking you from energy fundamentals to a written pilot plan with a defined baseline.

  1. 01

    Energy, storage and compute fundamentals

    How generation, storage and load interact over a day and a year, and the vocabulary used across the rest of the course.

  2. 02

    Understanding AI-node power demand

    Idle draw, burst draw and sustained load; measuring at the socket; turning measurements into an annual demand estimate.

  3. 03

    Solar-first versus always-on workloads

    Classifying workloads by urgency and interruptibility, and deciding deliberately which ones are always-on.

  4. 04

    Battery, grid and cloud fallback

    Reserve floors, evening load competition, grid supply as the reliability backbone, and cloud burst for peaks.

  5. 05

    Telemetry and energy data

    Sources, intervals, sign conventions, normalisation and safe handling of stale or missing data.

  6. 06

    Local AI deployment

    Model selection, quantisation, serving, storage layout and concurrency limits appropriate to your node tier.

  7. 07

    Safety, commissioning and operations

    Competence boundaries, information to prepare for installers, thermal and noise planning, monitoring and incident handling.

  8. 08

    Designing your pilot

    Scoping a single workload, defining a baseline, choosing metrics and writing a report that states its own limitations.