Electra Solar EOL Forecaster
When and where solar panels will retire, forecast for the utilities and funders who plan recycling capacity
Solar panels retire in waves, and the recycling infrastructure to absorb them is being planned on rough guesses. Heather runs Electra, a solar panel recycling platform born in a Terra working group, and needed forecasts she could put in front of utilities and funders.
An end-of-life forecasting tool that models when and where panels will retire, built and demoed to the cohort in week two of Studio.
Electra has won prizes and DOE and NASA funding since it started as an LFA working-group idea. Studio is where Heather added AI tooling to the operation; along the way she built a reusable style guide and shared it with the cohort.
Want to build your own?
You join a live global cohort for eight weeks and ship working tools as you go. No engineering background required.
Apply to the next cohort →Cohort starts: October 26, 2026
Application Deadline: October 23, 2026