Computer communications and control hardware and embedded control software and control algorithms for monitoring, controlling, protecting, scheduling, and communicating with on-site energy devices in the nature of batteries, inverters, and distributed generation systems to optimize system performance and reliability; Computer communications and control hardware and embedded control software for unified control of solar and energy storage systems with real-time responsiveness to meet utility and project-level requirements; Computer communications and control hardware and embedded control software for enabling secure data exchange and operational coordination between field-deployed energy assets and a centralized control platform