Solar Installation Is Surprisingly Manual End to End
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“I come from a software background and started working with a few solar installers earlier this year. I expected the install side to be complex but I wasn't prepared for the back-office side. One team I worked with had someone spending literally half their day copying data…”
Solar developers are facing significant hurdles in bringing projects to completion, including workforce shortages, permitting delays, construction risks, and funding challenges. These issues are leading to stalled projects, cost overruns, and missed deployment targets, hindering the growth of the solar energy sector. The industry is struggling to translate initial viability into operational success.
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“What it is: FieldWatt, an iOS app for the techs who commission and maintain utility scale solar plants. Not residential rooftop, the big field installations with central inverters and trackers. Why I built it: this trade is growing fast and the knowledge is a mess.…”
“I come from a software background and started working with a few solar installers earlier this year. I expected the install side to be complex but I wasn't prepared for the back-office side. One team I worked with had someone spending literally half their day copying data between systems pulling specs from Aurora, reformatting them for utility interconnection forms, then manually tracking which apps were submitted, which got kicked back, which utilities need what format. All through email th”
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