Sunscale

Transformative / Industrial / Scalable

Our Vision for Solar

Building electric power at the national scale is expensive - costing trillions - and the infrastructure is so vast it defies practical comprehension. Each generating asset - coal, hydro, nuclear, wind, or even legacy utility-scale solar - has common DNA. These assets are built using a labor-intensive manual process.

Utility-scale solar, because of its repetitive nature, lends itself to being deployable with automation. When this happens for the first time in history, we'll be producing solar fields as a reflection of machine hours, much like industrial agriculture.

At Sunscale, we believe the future requires "labor decoupling" to unlock industrial scale solar at tens or hundreds of square miles annually.

This will be a seminal moment for energy.

Manual Installation

Legacy construction of utility-scale solar is broken... It relies on a vast amount of unskilled labor. It’s slow, it’s costly, and it leaves a residue of poor quality that affects operating asset performance.

As a rule of thumb, doubling project capacity means doubling the workforce or doubling the timeline, assuming a project is located where labor is available.

The Administration’s deportation policies in combination with the reshoring of domestic manufacturing will create intense competition for low skill labor and increase cost and scarcity. But solar developers/utilities have limited flexibility to absorb higher labor costs, or projects simply won’t get approved.

If we don’t solve this now, the future of solar must be considered in peril. Further, any discussion about growing this industry is unrealistic.

Utility-scale solar is hostage to manual installation…

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It feels like a big risk for this expansion. Where are we going to find all the people?

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- Abigail Ross Hopper

PRESIDENT, SEIA

What We Do

Our service automates the most labor-intensive tasks of solar construction, breaking the long-standing labor constraint. Sunscale's technology spans robotics, hard automation, software systems, high-speed mesh networks, machine learning, and surgical uses of AI. However, we are technology agnostic, integrating the best solutions for our goals.

Sunscale is committed to hyperscaling solar by delivering order of magnitude changes to speed and labor reduction while maintaining the highest quality.

By 2040, power demand in the US will have increased by 55% (roughly 750GW). Utility-scale solar is in a unique position to be not only the lowest cost generation, but to become scalable cementing itself as the cornerstone of the energy complex.

Sunscale is proud to announce the engagement of Weild & Co., an issuer-focused investment bank, and their Weild Climate Markets group to arrange capital raises.