Mapdwell Solar System | Community Solar Education & Action Platform - Chile and United States of America

Mapdwell Solar System addresses climate change by providing open-access information about the solar power potential of buildings and empowers communities to take action.

Fast facts

Every kilowatt of photovoltaic electricity avoids 0.75 tonnes of carbon being released into the atmosphere;
A standard 5 kilowatt residential system does the work of 85 trees in terms of carbon sequestration.

The problem

Communities are often not empowered with the information they need in order to drive sustainable practices, community awareness, energy efficiency, and smart development.

The solution

The Mapdwell Solar System is an advanced online application that reveals the solar photovoltaic potential of every building in a given community. It is designed to provide people with the facts to support informed decision-making on solar PV adoption, and is based on a powerful and scalable platform that allows any community to discover their underlying solar resources. Through strategic partnerships with local entities, Mapdwell Solar System presents features for community planning and outreach efforts, catalyzed by existing community initiatives and networks. This hybrid model helps community planners and top-level decision makers shape their policy decisions and initiatives, meanwhile individual citizens are informed on their potential decisions.

Helping the planet

The Mapdwell Solar System is designed to be approachable and actionable for individuals to understand their potential to go solar, with all the environmental benefits attributed to that decision.

Helping people

Mapdwell Solar System’s goal is to enable communities with information that will drive sustainable practices, community awareness, energy efficiency, and smart development through the aggregate effort of individuals. Mapdwell and Solar System are tuned to add value to community organizations, local business and industry stakeholders, and individuals as they assess the option to go solar.

Scaling Up

Solar System is designed to provide people with facts to support informed decision-making on PV solar energy adoption, allowing any community on earth to join and discover their solar resources. Mapdwell has built its technology data infrastructure for scalability from day one. The intense, data computation process that underlies the Solar System platform was developed by Mapdwell scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to efficiently work with enormous, diverse datasets from different sources. This technology has been continually improved in its efficiency, speed, and robustness and has been applied to datasets from communities domestically and abroad.