We were thinking about finding certain times that would be optimal for solar and wind energy in the area of Charlottesville
Our script gets data from a weather API, and then based on data from a three-day hourly forecast, a recommendation is made on what hours are optimal for solar or wind energy use based on sun intensity, wind speed, and cloud cover, and then those recommendations are sent to a given phone number via SMS.
We built this project in Python, and called from 2 APIs
We had challenges setting up our environment variables and figuring out how to securely use our API keys and information
We are really proud of creating this full scale and comprehensive project, that utilizes our technical skills to better our local community.
We learned a lot about how to securely call APIs, and how to set up environment variables, and the purpose of environment variables.
We might plan on hosting this on a server that would continuously send SMS updates, rather than only sending them when our script is run.
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