80% Less Water Consumed while Cleaning Solar Panels
About the Anchor Client
Founded in 2014, Freyr Energy provides homeowners, businesses & communities simple and affordable clean energy and its platform ‘SunPro’ provides customized solutions to their customers.
Challenges faced
- Reduction in Solar Productivity due to dirty panels
- Manual and time cleaning consuming process
- Water Intensive Process
About the Startup
Focus: Fully automated solar panel cleaning solution by integrating a hardware system & a cloud platform for remote monitoring & operation
Solution:
- Developed a portable & modular solar cleaning robot, designed to be adaptive to different sizes & configurations
- 1.8% increase in performance efficiency of solar panels in a span of 10 days
- Required 80% less water while cleaning the solar panels as compared to the manual process
Results
FlipRobotics received a Letter of Intent from Freyr Energy to utilize their solutions in their future operations
Testimonial
“The reason I feel that the Yes SCALE program is very useful is because it directly links startups that are trying to develop a product and fits them with companies that have identified that as a market need. You therefore avoid the situation where startups face time developing a product for which there is no market need and no feedback. Freyr Energy, as well as the sector itself, really needed this product. As the solar panels across the countries grow, operation and maintenance is the next logical phase of evolution. It is a huge challenge because it is manpower intensive. From that perspective, having robots not only makes it easier to maintain the systems properly and helps you to scale it. You can ensure that the systems are functioning as per customer’s requirements,”
– Saurabh Marda,
Co-Founder, Freyr Energy
