## Who am I? - Career in finance (quantitative analysis/fintech) - Early open-source and Python advocate - Taking a break :-) - Looking forward to a world where energy is not wasted --- ## What is this about? - Answer questions about CH solar energy potential - How much? - Where? - Could we...? --- ## Trigger for this idea - EPFL Paper on estimating the potential of solar panels in CH - Reference to swisstopo data - Swisstopo opening up data - Perfect excuse to hack for a week (and maybe more) --- ### Goals for this hackathon - Familarize myself with geo data - Understand the potential estimation models - Experiment with ML solar detection models - Mock-up of what a final platform could look like --- ## Used data - Solar roofs & facades / pre-computed aggregates - Swissimage 10cm tiles - Boundaries --- ## "Demo" --- ### Next steps - Use proper maps for the visualisations - Detect roofs for all Switzerland / improve model - Make a user-friendly exploration website - Use SwissSurface3D (or older data) to replicate illumination/shading model - Enable querying targeted to specific practical uses: - Lobbying - Test new locations/paradigms --- ### Thank you! You can find me on - GitHub - Twitter - or email me