Fiber Connectivity for Solar and Energy Storage Projects
Dedicated fiber and private point-to-point paths for utility-scale solar and battery energy storage sites — carrying SCADA, inverter and substation communications, telemetry, and site security from locations built well away from commercial fiber.
Solar & Energy Storage runs on the network.
Utility-scale generation is built where the land and the interconnection are, which is almost never where carriers have built fiber. A project site can sit miles from the nearest usable plant, and the connectivity plan is frequently the last item addressed and the first to become a schedule risk — during construction, when temporary connectivity has to support crews and commissioning, and then permanently, when the site has to report to a control centre and to the offtaker every second of its operating life.
Vast Networks engineers connectivity for sites like these across California, including Kern County, where a large share of the state's utility-scale generation is concentrated. The work is a build rather than a service order: a route survey, a construction plan, and a dedicated path designed against what the site actually needs to carry. Where a single path is not enough, physical route diversity is engineered where it is achievable and stated plainly where it is not.
The two phases of a project have genuinely different requirements, and treating them as one is where connectivity plans go wrong. Construction needs capacity quickly, for crews, commissioning equipment, and cameras, at a site that may have no permanent infrastructure yet. Operations needs a path that behaves identically for twenty years, carries control traffic that must not traverse shared infrastructure, and reports continuously to parties who notice when it stops. Planning the permanent path early — while trenches are open and access is already permitted — is usually cheaper than returning to build it after the site is energised.
Engineered for the work.
The capabilities our solar & energy storage customers rely on every day.
SCADA and plant control
Engineered private paths for supervisory control and data acquisition traffic, kept off the public internet end to end.
Inverter and substation communications
Low-latency, deterministic paths between inverter blocks, the substation, and the plant control system.
Telemetry and market reporting
Continuous outbound capacity for generation, state-of-charge, and availability data to control centres and offtakers.
Site security and construction phase
Camera and access-control backhaul from remote sites, plus connectivity during construction and commissioning.
A starting point, engineered to fit.
The services solar & energy storage customers deploy most — every build is designed around your sites, bandwidth, and redundancy.
Dedicated Fiber
An engineered circuit to the project site for operations, telemetry, and security traffic.
ExplorePoint-to-Point
A private Layer 2 path between the site, a substation, or an operations centre — no public internet in the path.
ExploreDark Fiber
Unlit strands where the operator wants to control the optical layer, protocol, and encryption itself.
ExploreWavelength Services
Dedicated optical capacity between fixed points where volumes or determinism justify it.
ExploreReliability you can build on.
Owned infrastructure and local engineering — not a reseller routing you offshore.
Privately owned fiber
5,000+ miles of underground fiber engineered in California.
Carrier-grade uptime SLA
Financially-backed service levels on every dedicated circuit.
24/7 local NOC
Monitored around the clock by California-based engineers.
California backbone
Low-latency routes across the Central Valley and statewide.