Palmetto Maps 107 Million Roofs In US While Opposition To Rooftop Solar Grows
As more new solar technologies come available, the utility industry is pedaling furiously to stop them from disrupting their business model.
Mapdwell
Mapdwell Moves In To San Francisco, Finds 3 GW Of Potential Rooftop Solar
Clean tech company Mapdwell has identified 3 GW worth of potential rooftop solar PV in its newest location of San Francisco. Less than a week after the MIT spin-off company revealed that New York rooftops had the potential for 11 GW worth of rooftop solar, the Boston-based urban solar mapping … [continued]
New York City Rooftops Could Hold 11 GW Of Solar PV
Aug 26th Update: We received this note from Eduardo Berlin, CEO at Mapdwell: “We have updated the figures on our press release. They were incorrect as they were only considering partial boroughs — not all 5.” The initially reported 4.7 GW should have been 11 GW, and 5 million MWh should … [continued]
Solar Mapping Tool Will Evaluate Solar Potential of Every Roof
Cost of Solar. A rooftop solar mapping and assessment tool developed at MIT could eventually make it dead simple to discover the solar potential of every single rooftop in a city. The tool, called Solar System, uses high resolution mapping data to create a 3D model of the entire community, … [continued]
