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Lunar AI is an artificial intelligence system designed to optimize home energy use and savings, created by Lunar Energy. Unlike standard energy storage systems, Lunar AI learns, adapts, and acts daily to help homeowners make the most of their home's energy.

This mechanism increases savings, enables homeowners to generate more earning, and optimizes home energy use. One of the ways Lunar AI delivers on this is by filling a home's battery before evening rates rise, which ensures the home runs on solar for as long as possible.

Furthermore, Lunar AI has a strategy to exploit cheap mid-day grid power to run a home on less sunny days. It also intelligently manages power exports to take advantage of high-export credit hours during the summer and adjusts to the changing daily export credits against Virtual Power Plant (VPP) opportunities.

Lunar AI operates transparently, while the Lunar App keeps the users aware of real-time energy flows, savings, and predicts their energy story. Importantly, Lunar AI does all these while constantly adapting to real-time changes in weather conditions, EV charging, rate trends, and recurring events, with an aim to maximize from solar energy, reduce bills and continuously run homes on clean power with minimum user interventions.

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Access & connections

Where you can use Lunar AI, and what it plugs into.

Platforms

Web

Integrations

Capabilities

What this tool accepts, produces, and is strongest at.

Input

  • Tabular

Output

  • Text

Pros & cons

Pros

  • Home energy optimization
  • Maximizes solar energy use
  • Adjusts to rate trends
  • Real-time weather adaptation
  • Optimizes EV charging
  • Adapts to recurring events
  • Increases homeowner earnings
  • Fills battery before rate rise
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  • Exploits mid-day grid power
  • Manages power exports intelligently
  • Maximizes high-export credit hours
  • Daily adjustment to export credits
  • Coordinates with Virtual Power Plant
  • Transparent operation
  • Real-time energy flow awareness
  • Predicts energy use story
  • Minimizes user interventions
  • Tracks Real-time adaptations
  • Optimizes power exports
  • Keeps user aware of savings
  • Adaptable to changing conditions
  • Predictive behaviour for earning
  • Adapts to evening rates
  • Leverages cheap daytime power
  • Micro-management of energy savings
  • Customer testimonials available
  • Can shift strategy on demand
  • Adapts to complex rate schedules
  • User-friendly Lunar App
  • Customized home energy planning
  • Saves more than standard batteries
  • Participation in VPP programs
  • Automatic calculations for optimization
  • Partnership opportunities for installers
  • Efficient energy storage system
  • Offers continuous clean power
  • Applies Real-time changes
  • Real-time savings tracking
  • Saves during less sunny days
  • Unique plan everyday
  • Works against VPP opportunities
  • Increase in customer savings
  • Customer support availability
  • Transparent decision making
  • Avoids grid outages
  • Designed for clean energy
  • Supports green tech sustainability

Cons

  • Reliance on solar energy
  • Dependent on weather conditions
  • Vulnerable to rate changes
  • Doesn't support non-EV appliances
  • Real-time adaptations might fail
  • No manual control options
  • Requires constant internet connectivity
  • Lack of integration options
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  • No information on security
  • No offline working mode

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Releases 1

Initial release September 11, 2022 Current
Initial release of Lunar AI.

FAQ 12

What is Lunar AI?
Lunar AI is an artificial intelligence system created by Lunar Energy. It is designed to optimize home energy use and savings through its ability to learn, adapt, and act daily based on real-time changes in various factors, such as weather conditions, EV charging, rate trends, and recurring events.
How does Lunar AI optimize home energy use?
Lunar AI optimizes home energy use by employing strategies such as filling a home's battery before evening rates rise to ensure the home runs on solar for as long as possible and exploiting inexpensive mid-day grid power to run the home on less sunny days. It also adapts to real-time changes in factors like weather conditions, EV charging, and rate trends to ensure maximum efficiency and savings.
What strategies does Lunar AI use to exploit cheap mid-day grid power?
Lunar AI uses a strategy that involves using cheap mid-day grid power to run homes when the sun's energy is insufficient. Every bit of solar that is captured goes straight to the battery, so that by the time it's 4 PM, the home is prepared to operate efficiently either way.
How does Lunar AI manage power exports?
Lunar AI manages power exports intelligently, taking advantage of high-export credit hours during the summer. It identifies the window when the grid pays a premium for stored power and ensures your battery is ready to export energy when the price is highest, enabling the homeowner to earn more from their home's energy.
What significant strategies does Lunar AI use to handle changing daily export credit?
Lunar AI handles changing daily export credits by using an adaptive strategy. It weighs the export credits against Virtual Power Plant (VPP) opportunities and selects the path that results in the most savings. The calculations it uses for this strategy changes daily, keeping in line with the fluctuations of the rate schedules.
How does Lunar AI deal with the Virtual Power Plant (VPP) opportunities?
When it comes to Virtual Power Plant (VPP) opportunities, Lunar AI evaluates them against the export credits. It chooses the most beneficial course of action, even if it requires running on grid power for a few hours. This decision-making process changes daily as the algorithm adapts to fluctuating conditions.
How transparent does Lunar AI operate?
Lunar AI operates transparently, functioning behind the scenes while allowing homeowners to monitor real-time energy flows, savings, and future energy projections through the Lunar App.
What kind of user awareness does Lunar AI offer?
Lunar AI offers user awareness by providing real-time insights about energy flows, savings, and energy prediction through the Lunar App. It ensures that the users stay informed about their energy story while Lunar AI works towards optimizing their home's energy use.
Can Lunar AI adapt to real-time changes in weather?
Yes, Lunar AI is designed to constantly adapt to real-time changes in weather conditions, and adjusts its operation accordingly in order to optimize the use of solar energy and reduce energy bills.
Does Lunar AI support EV charging?
Yes, Lunar AI supports EV charging. It is designed to adapt to real-time changes, including EV charging, and adjusts its operation accordingly.
How does Lunar AI manage rate trends?
Lunar AI manages rate trends by continually adapting to them in real time. Be it filling the home's battery before evening rates rise or using cheap mid-day grid power, Lunar AI employs strategies that take rate trends into account to optimize energy use and savings.
Does Lunar AI adapt to recurring events?
Yes, Lunar AI can adapt to recurring events. Its operational mechanisms involve learning and adapting on a daily basis, thus making it capable of adapting to repetitive occurrences which might impact home energy use.
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