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Launched in 2015, the Google Sunroof project is a service that calculates for you the relevance of the installation of photovoltaic panels.

Easy to use but limited for the moment in the USA, Sunroof provides a set of tools to facilitate the purchase and installation of solar panels.This digital service calculates how much money a user can expect to save annually using solar energy.

Take into account the damaged shadows and the weather

For this, he uses Google Maps data to calculate the shadows on roof from buildings and trees nearby.And it takes into account historical weather conditions and temperature,

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And as there is no small profit, Sunroof also provides a list of local solar energy retailers capable of installing solar panels in this area.

In France, many municipalities have an almost comparable service, the solar cadastre:

The strength of the service offered by Google is that it relies on Big Data to automate work, making it accessible and playful.

Vincent Courboulay

HDR lecturer at the University of La Rochelle, I am, among other things, "IT and sustainable development" education.I intervene in the dissemination of the concept of numerical responsible both in terms of its teaching and its certification and its dissemination with the general public.

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