Powering the future with our new Solar API
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Powering the future with our new Solar API

The global energy crisis, higher electricity prices, policy momentum, and reduced costs have driven unprecedented growth in renewable energy, with solar accounting for two-thirds of 2023's projected increase in global renewable capacity. In fact, we saw global search interest in "rooftop solar power" increase 60% last year on Google. With solar becoming more accessible, there's increased potential and demand to bring information and technology to solar companies and developers around the world. That's why today we launched our Solar API, within a new suite of environment APIs from Google Maps Platform. The Solar API surfaces important building, rooftop, shading, and panel configuration data covering over 320 million buildings in 40 countries, with the goal of helping accelerate the transition to clean, renewable, solar energy.

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