Received: 01 June 2017; Accepted: 13 December 2017; Published: 03 January 2018
This application will allow the user to put in their coordinates and house and roof sizes in order to receive some useful data on solar energy power. The program will give a recommendation for solar panel brand, and whether or not the user should get solar power. In addition, there is second part where the user can visualize recommendations for a specific house and roof size in cities throughout the entire U.S.
Server and code is written in Go, visual aspects written in HTML and Javascript. Deployed using Heroku.
Data sourced from US Climate Data, NASA Atmospheric Science Center, NASA, Solar Reviews, timeanddate.com, US Energy Information Administration, and Weatherbase. Equations sourced from Solar Electricity Handbook and Rexel.