by Rebecca Walker — December 20, 2010—New Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that successful independent corroboration of early power modeling for the Company’s SolarWindow has spurred active development of advanced commercial-use models for calculating power production and energy savings for the technology, which is capable of generating electricity on glass while remaining see-thru.
Once developed, an advanced power output model that accounts for performance and operating characteristics can serve as a basis for preliminary system sizing, value engineering, economic analysis, and power offset estimates—important considerations to prospective SolarWindow commercial customers.
“Today’s validation of our commercial-use power production model is an important step in providing potential customers with a performance and economic model for calculating cost-savings associated with the application of SolarWindow to building facades,” explained Mr. John A. Conklin, President and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc.
Key to maximizing energy production, SolarWindow can be applied to the extensive glass surfaces on commercial skyscrapers, an important advantage over conventional solar systems confined to installation on space-prohibitive rooftops.
The prospect of creating the world’s first-of-its-kind SolarWindow, currently under development, is made possible when researchers spray the company’s novel, electricity-generating, see-thru coatings onto glass surfaces. As part of its ongoing efforts to develop SolarWindow for commercial use, New Energy recently obtained an exclusive worldwide commercial license to numerous discoveries important to achieving transparency and ease of manufacturing.
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