The Problem

UN backed climate studies have repeatedly warned that if something dramatic doesn't change about our approach to energy, we'll hit extremely threatening levels of global warming.

Our Solution

Our application empowers people to find out about how much they can save with solar by showing them their solar savings anywhere in the world. We also show solar availability in different areas, allowing communities to implement solar where it can benefit them the most. We have no profit motive and are 100% open source, so you can trust us.

The Future

In the next 6 months, we plan on improving the cost-saving algorithm significantly by taking the best from existing models and iterating heavily on user outcomes. We also plan to expand our contributor base, so if you're a scientist, engineer, coder, or anyone else who wants to help get us to net zero emissions by 2050, join us and let's save the world together!

NASA

We leverage NASA's powerful Worldwind library to visualize this solar availability data across the globe, and we plan to expand our usage of it to produce useful data visualizations for both developers and researchers.

Made With Love

Our team mostly works in Express and React, so we decided on a light-weight react frontend. We also leverage the National Renewable Energy Library's solar coverage and production output API and the fantastic open source MapBox API.

Try it out

A minimal example is available at energynow.onrender.com, get ready to see a lot more there! We'll have a contribution link soon, but for now the code is available at: https://github.com/GlobalNRGNow/FSA-SpaceApps

Tags

#climatechange #NASA #Worldwind #solar #react #opensource