So there's this giant power plant in the sky,
and it's creating free energy for anyone to catch.
But most people aren't catching it,
because even though it could save them
money on their electric bills, getting started
There's all this stuff to figure out,
like how many panels do you need?
How much would you actually save?
And how do you tell if your house even gets enough sun?
A lot of people ask Google these kinds of questions,
so we started looking for a better way
And that's when one of our engineers got an idea.
If people are getting lost trying
to find answers about solar, why don't we give them a map?
We could take the information that's already in Google Maps
and use it to show how much sunlight falls on a roof.
Then we can combine that with all the other stuff
people need to figure out and create kind of a treasure
It could show you how much solar power you can generate
Then it could point you to an installer in your neighborhood
It's an idea we're calling Project Sunroof.
And right now we're just starting
with a few places like Boston, where the Sunroof team is from,
the San Francisco Bay Area where Google is from,
and Fresno, where one of our engineer's mom is from.
Pretty soon it'll grow to include the entire country
and maybe even the whole world.