![]() In 2021, BluWave-ai was awarded a major contract to advance Summerside’s system utility manager software to integrate a new 26‐megawatt Solar and Battery project. In November 2021, BluWave‐ai and the City of Summerside announced the completion of the first-end to-end AI‐optimized grid in North America, the first industry proof point of a scalable system applicable to entire regions and countries for transitioning energy networks toward maximizing the use of renewable assets. ![]() To showcase the performance of the BluWave-ai Canadian Smart Grid Center of excellence which works with Summerside’s wind farm, solar array, battery storage, grid connection, smart metering assets, the cloud-based AI optimization platform was able to deliver a 100% solar powered concert with less than 24 hours to configure, commission, and operationalize to support the new demand of the system to support the green rock concert. During the concert the BluWave-ai system delivered 496kWh of time-shifted green solar power via the battery or an average of 165kW per hour more covering the entire needs of the concert and associated climate control.The total incremental energy from the concert was 454.5 kWh compared to regular days During the 3 hour concert the facility used 1173 kWh.During this time averaged 718.5 kWh for the facility with no concert. Baselining of the overall facility power usage from 8:00pm to 11:00pm AST on days without a concert showed the electricity load.This way, solar generated over capacity was moved to the battery for the concert in the evening while the rest of the facility could run on a combo of Summerside Wind Power and regular grid power. ![]() From approximately 8:00am to 12:00pm AST the battery was loaded with 496kWh of coincidental solar produced energy by setting thresholds.The AI platform left enough battery capacity unfilled during the night of August 30th to August 31st to fill the battery with solar production at the Summerside CUP on the day of the Bryan Adams concert, August 31st. ![]() Once the concert started, the automated platform took over to detect the increased load created by the concert and peripheral elements and managed the stored solar energy to supply the concert load over the 3 hour period.īelow is how the system played out on concert day: With a day of immense solar fluctuations, the system was able to operate the building in advance of the concert while storing enough solar energy to drive the concert in the evening. Through this they could store sufficient solar capacity in a 890 kWh battery to cover the projected energy demand of the concert such as lighting, audio equipment, and air conditioning. Leveraging the BluWave-ai energy optimization platform running in the cloud, BluWave-ai Edge and BluWave-ai Center, the partners were able to predict solar production during the day of August 31st. This milestone for BluWave-ai and Summerside is building of off their shared project, the Canadian Smart Grid AI Center of Excellence at the City of Summerside, announced earlier this year. The concert was run indoors at night leveraging solar and battery solutions. This feat took place on the first stop of the 2022 Canadian Tour of globally renowned Canadian musician, Bryan Adams, at the Credit Union Place in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada from 8-11pm on Tuesday, August 31st. The City of Summerside and BluWave-ai completed the first 100% time-shifted solar energy powered concert in North America.
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