5 Tips for Building a National Solar Drone Program
For years, all solar surveyors worked manually. They’d climb up on roofs, measure steep roof pitches by hand, and provide manual drawings to designers. Around 2016, Empire Solar Group decided to try drones – a novel technology at the time – to improve site survey quality and speed. It worked. The company exploded, growing to over 600 employees by 2021, in part due to the efficiency and cool-factor of their national solar drone program.