SOLAR - 7 projects looking to use big data to cut the cost of solar power

The Department of Energy is putting a collective $9 million into 7 projects being developed at universities and government labs that will us big data to lower the cost of solar in various ways. The projects, at places like Yale, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, will be focused on using analytics to lower the cost of solar installations and making solar cells more efficient. Apple's massive solar farm in North Carolina, photo by WCNC- ...

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