How Sunrun is revolutionizing the solar industry with Google Maps Platform Solar API

Summary

Sunrun, a leader in clean energy, is transforming the solar industry with their collaboration with Google Maps Platform's Solar API. This partnership allows Sunrun to provide customized, real-time solar solutions tailored to each customer's home by analyzing essential data like sun exposure and shading. Previously lengthy processes have been drastically reduced, allowing decisions to be made in minutes rather than a week. Furthermore, the partnership improves safety by reducing the need for physical rooftop surveys. The collaborative effort with Google's innovative team continues to enhance Sunrun's customer experience.

Highlights

• Sunrun envisions a future where life runs on clean energy, with solar at the forefront. 🔆
• By using Google's Solar API, Sunrun offers customers a customized solar experience based on their home's unique features. 🏠
• The Solar API has shortened Sunrun's customer proposal time from a week to just minutes. ⌛
• Safety improvements reduce the need for surveyors to climb roofs in potentially dangerous conditions. 🧗‍♂️
• The agile collaboration with Google leads to rapid innovations and better customer service. 🤝

Key Takeaways

• Sunrun is committed to a future powered by clean energy, starting with solar. ☀️
• The partnership with Google Maps Platform Solar API allows for real-time solar system design tailored to each customer's home. 🏡
• Safety is enhanced by minimizing the need for physical rooftop inspections, especially in challenging conditions. 🦺
• The collaboration with Google facilitates quick innovations and expanded market opportunities. 🌎
• Sunrun uses their vast customer data to drive further enhancements and personalized solar experiences. 📊

Overview

Sunrun is pioneering the future of clean energy by leveraging solar power, and their partnership with Google Maps Platform is key to this transformation. With the solar API, Sunrun harnesses crucial data about a home’s solar potential to provide bespoke solutions. This innovation notably accelerates the process of creating solar proposals from days to mere minutes, allowing for an efficient customer experience.

Through this collaboration, Sunrun can offer personalized solar designs by analyzing factors like sunlight exposure and roof shading. The real-time capabilities of the Solar API simplify and enhance the entire process, leading to improved customer satisfaction and higher conversion rates. Moreover, the partnership significantly enhances safety by minimizing the need for physical inspections.

The synergy between Sunrun and Google fosters an environment of rapid innovation. It opens doors to new markets and improves customer experiences by continually refining the solar solutions offered. Sunrun's extensive customer data combined with Google's innovative platform creates a robust foundation for future advancements in the solar industry.

How Sunrun is revolutionizing the solar industry with Google Maps Platform Solar API Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 there's a future out there where everything runs on clean energy and we're building that future today here at sunron we believe that life runs on clean energy and we're connecting people to the cleanest energy on Earth and that starts with solar it is rare to find a partner that's as dedicated to the solar industry as we are working with the Google team and creating this solar API has allowed us to think of our own business differently and almost challenges us to be more innovative we
• 00:30 - 01:00 wanted to change how we sold our product so we wanted to have a real-time experience so we could do a proposal for the customer in the home we don't just do solar the same on every single home we actually look at the home we look at how how they use power um how the Sun hours at the home and we tailor a solar experience to that customer some of the data points that we need to make sure we're designing the right systems one is versus production that's probably the most crucial piece of it you also look at the surface layer like modeling the trees the shading each pinpoint of that
• 01:00 - 01:30 roof is super important to making sure that we're giving the customer the optimal design you go back 10 12 years ago we send some out to the home our sight Sur would climb up on the roof take a lot of pictures youd then have to ingest those back into the system we'd have individuals back here at corporate where they'd be analyzing those and making decisions and it would take us a full week for us to come back to that customer that's a that's a long time period with the actual solar API we can make those decisions in real time we would be at the house we would kick off a site model within a few minutes we were actually presenting to the customer customer what a design would be we could
• 01:30 - 02:00 actually estimate their solar production and sign contracts that day huge huge Improvement to our process and our Clos rates partnering with the solar API a big part of that is safety if you're a site survey and you're working in Boston and you're climbing up on a roof in December it's not IDE deal so if I can minimize the amount of times I'm doting on that roof that's a huge win for both them and us with the vast amount of data that we have from our nearly a million customers we were able to build a partnership really what made this
• 02:00 - 02:30 partnership special is the relationship the ability to balce ideas back and forth with each other and be able to drive that Innovation into the product and it's cool working with a a company like Google they innovate pretty fast they'd come back with us with questions like hey what other markets do you want to go into or what other data points do you need for your designs having a partner across the table also be thinking of solutions giving us ideas about how to provide a better customer experience is such a cool thing to do the Google solar API has been a huge
• 02:30 - 03:00 factor of how we provided the experience we've always wanted to for our customers [Music]