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New Technology For Clean Solar Energy - Peer Plus
With dwindling resources and global warming, sustainable, clean energy should be a priority. One innovative company has made it theirs and is developing solar windows.
Windows give homes and buildings aesthetic appeal and connect them to the outdoors while bringing the world inside. They also give access to natural light and solar warmth and are often designed to be placed where they will allow maximum sunlight to enter a home or building. Hence, windows are also ideal locations on a structure to place solar panels that collect and transfer energy from light.
This smart concept is captured by an innovative company called Peer Plus, based in the Netherlands, a country famous for its windmills, another environmentally-friendly power generator. This company is currently in a pilot project to develop and install Smart Energy Glass. Windows made with this organic-based glass coating are able to multitask as solar energy collectors.
Smart Energy Glass Is a Trademark of the Company Peer Plus
Additionally Smart Energy Glass can be changed to three different tinted settings by the flick of a manual switch that looks as simple to use as a light bulb dimmer. These modes are bright, which allows natural sunlight into a dwelling or building, dark which blocks out light and privacy mode, which uses a mirror effect to scatter light.
The bright mode can be used to allow heat in while the dark mode will allow cooling as it reflects sunlight away. According to the company site, energy for this amazing technology function is provided by the windows themselves.
The energy collected by the Smart Energy Glass windows cannot yet be transferred to the building’s electrical supply to be consumed as a sustainable and renewable energy. The company notes that the current technology is only able to provide enough energy to change the tinting of the windows themselves. If excess solar energy was able to be collected it would be fed back to the power grid and sold to make additional income.
Though the technology is in its early, limited phase, windows made from Smart Energy Glass, should pay for themselves in a few years if they perform as the developers indicate. The company Peer Plus promises that these windows will save on lighting, cooling and heating.
For further appeal, the company offers windows in a variety of colors that may be possible to be inscribed with company logos and names. The company calls their intelligent idea, ‘the first window with a payback time.”
Will Smart Energy Glass Provide Clean Power For Home and Businesses?
Though this is currently a pilot project, sustainable and renewable resources are far overdue and it is surprising that alternative clean energy sources such as solar power for homes and electric powered vehicles are not yet readily available to the public.
Time will tell if Peer Plus windows become a widely used building material to allow homeowners and companies to produce their own sustainable clean energy. Other companies with corporate research and development projects such as hydrogen cells have promised clean energy in the past, but have yet to provide any contributions to society and the environment.
If Smart Energy Glass is able to make windows that give back to the buildings and homes they are on, this will provide a new way for businesses and families to go green.
