New.. The `Solar Map` tells you whether your home is suitable for solar energy or not

ArabiaWeather.com - Khitam Amer - is an exceptional and distinctive step taken by the well-known search company "Google" recently by adding the solar map service, which calculates the sun's rays that fall on the roofs of homes after allocating funding of $ 2 billion for renewable energy projects, and thus You can search your home and know the amount of sunlight that falls on it and benefit from it for several purposes in your home.

The project is called "Project Sunroof", and it is a new (online) tool that allows you to enter your address so that you can calculate the area that you can use to put solar panels on the roof of your house, and it can also calculate the number of sunny hours that your roof has throughout the year and money that you will save from this method.

And after you enter your address, a picture of your house and the homes of your neighbors will appear via “Google Earth”, and the roofs of these houses appear in colors ranging from purple to yellow, as an indication of the amount of sun that falls on the roof.

This project was carried out by a number of researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Massachusetts, and this project contributes to telling the homeowner the size of the solar panels that should be installed on the roof of your house on your average electricity bill, and it also calculates how much you will save depending on the method you choose to finance the panels.