It’s easy to spot a wind turbine or solar array from the window of your car, but counting each installation across the world is quite a different story. And since neither the Paris Agreement nor the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals can possibly be fulfilled without a broad adoption of renewable energy sources, having a comprehensive global system for independently assessing and monitoring the growth of those resources in real-time is critical. But how to create one? No spoilers here – solar panels work best when exposed to light, which makes them pretty easy to spot from orbiting satellites. Enter the Global Renewables Watch (GRW), a first-of-its-kind living atlas intended to map and measure all utility-scale solar and wind installations on Earth using AI and satellite imagery to allow users to evaluate clean energy transition progress and track trends over time. Not only will it show energy capacity (and gaps), but also how development is changing the landscape, for example, if renewable projects are being sited on farms, grasslands, etc.