You can now let Google help you build a more environmentally friendly solar roof. To encourage more people to install solar panels on their roofs, Google recently launched a new program called Project Sunroof.
You can get information by searching for your own address in the tools provided by Google to determine if you are suitable for renewable energy such as solar panels.
You can see the intensity of daylight on your roof for the whole year and how much electricity you can save if you use solar panels a year. Google's tools reference high-resolution aerial mapping maps and local weather factors when calculating solar intensity.
If the user intentionally installs a solar panel, the tool will list the recommended list of local solar panel suppliers.
Currently, the program only supports consumers living in San Francisco, Fresno, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, but Google said it will continue to expand the scope of support for this tool.
The lighting roof plan was developed by Carl Elkin, a self-proclaimed "solar geek". He has been an engineer at Google for nearly three years and has always had a keen interest in solar science and the environmental advantages of solar energy. He installed some solar panels on his roof in 2011 and became Boston since 2012. Volunteers of the Solarize Masschusetts program.
He told BusinessInsider: "In the process of volunteering for the Solarized Massachusetts Program, I interviewed hundreds of people and finally came to the conclusion that people didn't realize that installing and using solar panels could save money. They often I thought 'this is good for the environment, but it will cost me more.'"
But Elgin said that solar panels are not as expensive as people think, and the cost of using solar energy is actually lower than the cost of using electricity.
After extensive and in-depth discussions with colleagues on the Google Geo team and the Maps team, Elgin realized that Google had the necessary and sufficient data and computing tools to develop a new tool. And this tool has the potential to benefit countless people.
After he thought about it, he started to act. Google encourages employees to spend 20% of their time working on things that are of interest to them or that can benefit the company, so Elgin spent a year and a half collecting resources and has only begun to put all his energy into it in recent months. Above the lighting roof plan.
Elgin said that the “sideline†that employees use for 20% of their working hours is not all in line with the company's overall strategy, but the project he has done has been approved by the company because it fits well with Google's overall goals.
He said: "We will provide information to our users. Users are of course a core part of Google's overall strategy. We will use data from multiple departments of the company. This project is also in line with Google's traditional strategy of investing in renewable energy."
In a blog post about the lighting roofing project, Elgin pointed out that Google has invested in a company called SolarCity to help Africa's largest solar power plant financing, while also prioritizing the use of solar energy to power the new campus.
He said: "Because we have used too much 'Google Magic', many of the things we do are hard to do outside of Google, so everyone thinks it is worth investing in Google resources."
“We are really excited. We think this is important for Google and the country as a whole. It provides very useful information for Google users to help them start their solar journey.â€
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