SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SunPower
(NASDAQ:SPWR), a leading solar technology and energy services
provider, and EagleView, a leading technology provider of aerial
analytics, today announced a new agreement to reduce solar
installation timelines and costs. SunPower has combined EagleView's
high-resolution Roof Reports with the new mySunPower™ Home Survey
app, enabling our solar installers and contractors to create
precise, construction-ready solar designs without a home visit. The
feature set is now available to the company's nationwide network of
more than 600 SunPower residential dealers.
Every new solar installation requires a custom design tailored
to the home's unique roof and electrical system. This is
traditionally done with an in-person survey, which requires
professionals to assess the house and take roof measurements,
either via drone or manually. With constraints including customer
schedules, weather, drone training and certification, in-person
surveys are cumbersome for homeowners, costly for installers, and
extend solar installation cycle timelines.
The mySunPower Home Survey app with EagleView Roof Reports
provides installers all the information they need to create final
solar designs without site visits. The app is designed to replace
ladder-climbing and drone photography with industry-first machine
learning technology. Straight from the app, homeowners take photos
of their home's structural and electrical components from ground
level. SunPower's patent-pending artificial intelligence software
automatically evaluates images and provides real-time feedback to
homeowners on photo completeness and clarity. EagleView Roof
Reports include aerial imagery and proprietary 3D models that
clarify roof characteristics with unprecedented accuracy.
By removing the in-person site survey, SunPower can reduce
project cycle times by up to two weeks and eliminate costs
associated with sending a site surveyor to the home.
"By pairing our proprietary software with EagleView's innovative
technology, we can reduce solar soft costs and create a better
customer experience," said Norm
Taffe, Executive Vice President, SunPower. "EagleView was an
obvious choice given their up-to-date aerial imagery from their
aircraft fleet, high-resolution 3D models, and short turnaround
time for roof reports."
For more than 20 years, EagleView has been capturing
high-resolution oblique and orthogonal aerial imagery with
proprietary camera systems installed on their own low-flying
aircraft. With patented and proven computer vision technologies,
EagleView digitizes structures to generate highly accurate
three-dimensional models of homes delivered as their Inform™ for
Solar product line. These 3D models have been delivered as a
variety of data sets for various industries for over a decade.
"We are excited to see this level of innovation by SunPower
empowered by our data," said Piers
Dormeyer, President, Construction & Utilities at
EagleView. "We look forward to helping homeowners across
the United States go solar."
For more information about becoming a SunPower dealer, visit:
https://us.sunpower.com/dealers-installers/become-sunpower-dealer
About EagleView
EagleView is a leader in aerial
imagery, machine learning-derived data analytics and software,
helping customers in different industries use property insights for
smarter planning, building, and living. With more than 200 patents,
EagleView pioneered the field of aerial property measurements and
has the largest multi-modal image database in history, covering 98
percent of the U.S. population. Flying over 9.5 million linear
miles every year, EagleView's coverage is the most extensive and up
to date, enabling local government and business customers to use
the most accurate data to make timely and informed decisions. For
more information, visit www.eagleview.com or call (866)
659-8439, and follow @EagleViewTech.
About SunPower
Headquartered in California's Silicon Valley, SunPower
(NASDAQ:SPWR) is a leading Distributed Generation Storage and
Energy Services provider in North America. SunPower offers the
only solar + storage solution designed and warranted by one company
that gives customers control over electricity consumption and
resiliency during power outages while providing cost savings to
homeowners, businesses, governments, schools and utilities. For
more information, visit www.sunpower.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995, including, but not limited to, statements regarding new
technology and the anticipated benefits thereof, including impacts
on cost and installation precision and timing. These
forward-looking statements are based on our current assumptions,
expectations, and beliefs and involve substantial risks and
uncertainties that may cause results to materially differ from
those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include,
but are not limited to, potential technical issues, regulatory
changes and the availability of economic incentives promoting use
of solar energy, and fluctuations or declines in the performance of
our solar panels and other products and solutions. A detailed
discussion of these factors and other risks that affect our
business is included in filings we make with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) from time to time, including our most
recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, particularly under the
heading "Risk Factors." Copies of these filings are available
online from the SEC or on the SEC Filings section of our Investor
Relations website at investors.sunpowercorp.com. All
forward-looking statements in this press release are based on
information currently available to us, and we assume no obligation
to update these forward-looking statements in light of new
information or future events.
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