How to design a solar-aware workload policy
A workable policy is short, written down, and expressed in thresholds an operator and a scheduler can both act on.
Start with classification: for each workload, record its urgency, whether it can be interrupted, and its typical energy per run.
Then set thresholds. For example: run deferred batch work when generation exceeds node demand by a stated margin and battery state of charge is above a reserve floor; pause batch work when the site is importing above a stated level.
Define the reserve explicitly. A battery reserve exists for a reason — resilience, evening site load, or a specific critical process. Compute should not be allowed to consume it silently.
Review the policy against measured outcomes monthly. A policy that never defers anything, or defers everything, is mis-tuned.
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