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Increasing Solar Energy Adoption Through AI Roof Detection

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Solar AI, a Singapore based startup incubated as a part of ENGIE Factory, collaborated with Omdena, to hyper-scale the deployment of distributed solar and the transition towards 100% renewables by modernizing the way rooftop solar is sold. Solar energy is a promising and freely available resource for managing the forthcoming energy crisis, without hurting the environment. There's enough solar energy hitting the Earth every hour to meet all of humanity's power needs for an entire year. The rooftop solar assessment process can be time consuming and expensive, taking anywhere between 1 hour to 2 full days to calculate the solar potential of each rooftop. In the solar industry, this has resulted in the cost of sales taking up to 30–40% of total project costs, significantly worsening the unit economics of solar projects.