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Glint Solar grabs $8M to help accelerate solar energy adoption across Europe


Solar energy is booming, which is good news for Glint Solar. The Norwegian software-as-a-service startup has built a platform that's helping energy giants

The platform features adaptable layout designs and yield estimates, along with country-specific geographic information system (GIS) data and topographic analysis to make it easer for solar developers to evaluate potential sites. But he also says that projects still aren’t happening as fast as they need to given the existential threats of a heating planet that are driving waves of disasters, from devastating floods and hurricanes to heatwaves, droughts, and forest fires. Commenting in a statement, Jonathan Lerner, partner at Smedvig Ventures said:“The solar industry has done a great job at developing ways to harvest green energy, but now we need better processes to get these plans in motion.

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