{"id":3746,"date":"2011-02-03T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:50:54","slug":"a-new-window-opens-on-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/a-new-window-opens-on-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Window Opens on Solar Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Earlier this month we wrote about New Energy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s SolarWindow<\/a>, a solar technology to generate electricity on see-thru glass windows being developed by the company headquartered in Columbia, MD.
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The company this week announced another breakthrough. Its researchers have successfully developed a first-generation 12″x12″ working prototype, which is a great increase on its predecessor of 4\u00e2\u20ac\u009dX4\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, announced last September. <\/p>\n

It is the first-ever working SolarWindowof such dimension, said New Energy<\/a>. It represents a 300% increase in size. In order to make the prototype, researchers used New Energy’s patent-pending process for ‘spraying’ the electricity-generating coatings directly onto glass. <\/p>\n

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This method has the advantage of eliminating what the company calls \u00e2\u20ac\u0153expensive and often cumbersome\u00e2\u20ac\u009d high-temperature or high-vacuum production methods commonly used by solar manufacturers<\/a>. <\/p>\n

NewEnergy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s CEO John A. Conklin said that, with this new development, the company is getting closer to the residential and commercial end-user.<\/p>\n

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