Ucilia Wang, November 4, 2013 (Forbes)
"Sunpower…bought a California startup that engineers robots for cleaning solar panels to minimize electricity production losses…[and paid] an undisclosed amount of cash for Greenbotics after using the startup’s equipment for the past year at a 25-megawatt solar farm…in California’s Central Valley…Greenbotics’ technology speeds up the cleaning process and uses [90%] less water…than [m]anually hosing down the panels or sending pressurized water from a sprayer mounted on a truck…Each cleaning crew makes up three people and six robots and can brush-clean 6 megawatts of solar panels in an 8-hour [mostly night] shift…SunPower’s long-term plan is to use it for developing robots for speeding up the panel installation process of its projects…” click here for more
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