Sounds feasible. You’d need battery storage or less batteries and orchestration to charge farm equipment during solar production hours if no grid connection available, but micro grids are a well worn path at this point. Very popular in Australia’s western geography and their Northern Territory, where there is not much transmission infra to speak of.

https://electrek.co/2022/11/23/caterpillar-demonstrates-firs...

> infrastructure isn't good

I've heard this enough times that I might assume this is the bottle neck of a green transition of our electrical generation. What is being done about this? Is it an area where innovation or disruption can still happen? Are there any interesting things on the horizon for taking big leaps on fixing the electricity infrastructure? As a Fullstack/Cloud/Data engineer where could you put your feet down to contribute to solving this problem?

Decentralized power isn't what the power companies want.

The innovations aren't being pursued because of economics and greed.

So let's decentralise (human) power (over the grid)? But how?

The entire reason it's being done is the 3% of farmland which is sitting directly on interconnect is more than enough for all the solar that is needed and reactionaries keep having a hissy fit at the idea of replacing topsoil destroying and water polluting energy corn with less polluting PV. You can't then turn around and whine that the transmission line is too far away. Just don't build it on the other 97% of the farms.