Congratulations are in order!

Congratulations to Eloisa Paver (BSc Physics) and colleagues who won the best poster award at the annual PVSAT conference “Estimating the Capacity of Solar Farms using Satellite Imagery” using machine learning to estimate the capacity of a solar farm using only a satellite image. Exciting work. 



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