Madaeni: Equivalent battery optimization code manually takes two engineers one month
Seyed Madaeni · AI for climate: a real world test · Jun 15, 2023 · at 59:20
Energy trading and software expert Seyed Madaeni evaluates the baseline engineering labor required to build a battery dispatch optimization script.
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“Once you want to like grab, put some software foundation, what Duncan has presented today, I would say you need two engineers, more like a backend software engineer and an optimization engineer. And depending on how well they get along with each other, because that's another piece, the emotional intelligence of, you know, working as a team, we shouldn't ignore that. I would say best case scenario, two weeks, average a month, worst case scenario, a month and a half of getting to where you are today.”
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