Solar Intelligence

Abstract:Solar energy decision support is fragmented across dashboards that provide data without explanation, research papers are slow to parse, and general-purpose language models are not solar domain specific and answer without evidence. This paper introduces Solar Intelligence, a hybrid retrieval-augmented framework that unifies structured solar analytics, evidence-grounded scientific question answering, and machine learning forecasting in one system. The platform integrates daily NASA POWER solar and meteorological data, Biosphere 2 ground-sensor readings, and a curated corpus of research papers and institutional reports. Structured queries use DuckDB SQL; scientific questions are answered by a hybrid retriever that fuses BM25 and ChromaDB dense embeddings via Reciprocal Rank Fusion, with responses grounded through a language model (llama3.2:3b). An Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model produces daily forecasts of irradiance, temperature, and wind speed. The system is exposed via FastAPI, Streamlit, and an MCP server, so it can be used as an application, an API service, or an agent tool - by students, researchers, and energy analysts.

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2609.13648 [cs.AI]

(or arXiv:2609.13648v1 [cs.AI] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.13648 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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