Case Study: a leading renewable energy corporation reduces solar panel soiling with Accuris Goldfire

Innovative Breakthrough in Solar Engineering

A solar energy company, which operates over 45 solar farms worldwide, faced significant losses due to dust and particulate matter cementing onto its panels. This soiling reduced energy conversion and made cleaning expensive and energy-intensive. The company challenged its engineering team to find a biomimetic solution and turned to Accuris, using its Goldfire product, to help overcome difficulties in finding relevant interdisciplinary research.

Accuris’s Goldfire platform used AI-powered cognitive search to analyze scientific literature across disciplines. It helped the team identify the self-cleaning "lotus effect" and a manufacturer of a superhydrophobic coating that mimicked it. This solution saved the company weeks of engineering time, streamlined the process of applying the innovation to their panels, and conserved valuable resources that could be redirected to other projects.