Will AI replace Solar Sales Representatives and Assessors?
AI reaches most of this job’s work.
60/100
Very high exposure
More exposed to AI than 91% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 7% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 78% of the work
What the job involves
Contact new or existing customers to determine their solar equipment needs, suggest systems or equipment, or estimate costs.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(1)
- Provide technical information about solar power, solar systems, equipment, and services to potential customers or dealers.
Within reach(9)
- Prepare proposals, quotes, contracts, or presentations for potential solar customers.
- Select solar energy products, systems, or services for customers based on electrical energy requirements, site conditions, price, or other factors.
- Provide customers with information, such as quotes, orders, sales, shipping, warranties, credit, funding options, incentives, or tax rebates.
- Calculate potential solar resources or solar array production for a particular site considering issues such as climate, shading, and roof orientation.
- Generate solar energy customer leads to develop new accounts.
and 4 more
Out of reach(3)
- Gather information from prospective customers to identify their solar energy needs.
- Assess sites to determine suitability for solar equipment, using equipment such as tape measures, compasses, and computer software.
- Demonstrate use of solar and related equipment to customers or dealers.
Also called
Solar Sales Representative (Solar Sales Rep) · Solar Sales Rep · Sales Consultant · Solar Consultant · Solar Energy Consultant · Sales Specialist · Solar Energy Specialist · Solar Sales Assessor
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics