AI Uncovers Solar Energy Utilization Gap in the Philippines
A new artificial intelligence-powered tool has uncovered an under 1% solar energy utilization rate in some of the largest cities in the Philippines. According to the AI tool, solar utilization rates in Manila and several other large cities in the Southeast Asian country do not live up to their actual rooftop solar potential. The tool mapped 1,846.08 megawatts’ worth of rooftop solar energy capacity in 174 municipalities and cities in the Philippines, in one of the most comprehensive assessments of its solar energy capacity to date. Dubbed the Solar Power Estimation of Capacities & Tracking Using Machine Learning (SPECTRUM), the…
