NET pulls back the curtain on company's SolarWindow project

NET chief executive John Conklin

Cells thinner than a spider's web could make transparent energy-generating windows a reality in the near future.

If New Energy Technologies (NET) is successful, you will be hard-pressed to see its technology at work.

The US renewable-energy start-up is scaling up a transparent PV concept that it hopes will revolutionise commercial and industrial buildings' power balance by turning windows into see-through energy sources.

Working with the University of South Florida , NET is developing what it calls the SolarWindow, a technology that is based around a “spray-on” organic PV reactive material that works as the negative polar contact in the solar-cell circuit, a job currently done…

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