In October of 2013, Greenbotics was acquired by SunPower Inc. They created the poster belowwhich sums up our technology very well...
The market of cleaning solar panels never made financial sense till a few years ago when solar panel efficiency started significantly increasing. Being an extremely young market, this played an interesting role in our business development. We found, more often than not, we had to tell are customers what was best for them. This led to the development of our first key to success, we developed a software that would optimize the cleaning schedule for a given utility solar site for maximum efficiency. We would then offer each quote with a full report of this optimization. The results typically put us cleaning a site 2 to 3 times a year almost always during peak season (Summer) and provided a full financial return from the cleaning. This led to a very seasonal business where I spent fall, winter, and spring at our home base in Davis, ca designing, manufacturing, and testing our fleet of robots and service vehicles. And of course, the summer was spent traveling all over the US to blazing hot deserts, where most of these utility scale sites existed, and managing a crew of robots in the operations of a cleaning.
* Pictures Taken from Google search of "Greenbotics"