DuckWorth

Inspiration

The duck problem, customer-engagement

What it does

Rewards customers for reducing duck curve during peak hours by producing the energy with DuckBucks, which can be redeemed for other solar services. Raises customer awareness with their own energy usage

How we built it

Front-end: Flask Back-end: Python, Pandas, DarkSky API

Challenges we ran into

The data was messy, database issues

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Front-end looks great, visualizing data

What we learned

Learned DarkSky API, more about the energy industry, data discovery

What's next for DuckWorth

Built With

Submitted to

SunCode 2018
- Winner 3rd Place - $2000

Created by

I pulled the historical and forecasted weather data from the darksky api. I also ingested the raw data from sunrun, wrangled and merged the two datasets before exporting to the UI.
I began testing machine learning techniques to forecast the production and consumption from the weather data, but without a source of irradiance and with the time constraints I was unable to finish. (Perhaps using a network of homes instead of actual irradiance measurements would also work.)
We all worked on the product story and presentation.

Zoe DEFREITAS
Helped design and build the front end and focused on using actual data from Sunrun to feed our highcharts.js chart.

Danielle Martin
Front-end Developer and Energy Data Analyst
I worked on the database queries for processing and organizing the raw SunRun data using Python and SQLAlchemy. I helped created templates, routes, and views using Flask, JavaScript, and Highcharts. One of my favorite parts I added to the dashboard was the battery animation. I also attempted to implement potential algorithms to predict power offset given battery reserve and weather forecasting, but ran out of time. Lastly, I helped with the presentation.

Shihlin Lu
Created docker environment, back end with python using flask, and sqlalchemy. Created consumption script to convert raw data into object oriented data structure. Helped presentation brainstorming and delivery.

Josh Cano
Software Developer
Jesica Sutandi
Jawad Bhatti