Imagine the world where you can not only make and use your own electricity, large enough to accommodate your wild cravings, multiple air conditioners, centralized heating, hot water showers, you name it. The real awe is when you can use this all and still export power to the central grid to earn money! This is what renewable energy offers. The process, however, isn’t that easy to handle. Be it a hydro-power plant small enough to run on the stream or creek that flows near your home or be it a small wind power turbine generator you had installed near in the field near your rural residence or a vast solar farm or even a small solar cell array atop your home in a typical urban setting, it all requires numerous variables that need be monitored and maintained that will result in the efficient operation of the said power source. This process will prove to be insanely difficult for manual labor to perform efficiently. It is impossible to have dedicated PCs to monitor for every individual component of the system. This is where IoT ‘s potential can be unleashed. Be it the blade resistance to the wind for a wind turbine or the cell’s individual temperatures in a solar farm, every imaginable component can be monitored, sensed, data collected and also be uploaded to the cloud for processing. This process is exponentially efficient as when compared to a single dedicated PC handling all the variables.

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