Compared with its 4x4 predecessor, unveiled in September 2010, todays debut marks a significant achievement for the company as it continues to work towards producing a commercially marketable product.
Todays prototype achievement marks a 300 percent increase in size over its predecessor, and is the first-ever working SolarWindow of its dimension.
Researchers fabricated this prototype using New Energys patent-pending process for spraying the companys electricity-generating coatings directly onto glass, eliminating expensive and often cumbersome high-temperature or high-vacuum production methods typically used by current solar manufacturers.
This important milestone event brings our SolarWindow technology yet another step closer to the residential and commercial end-user, stated John Conklin, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc. We continue to pursue an aggressive product development program, working to improve, among other things, solar cell efficiency, power output, durability, manufacturability, and further scale-up.
The companys latest scale-up accomplishment follows on the heels of several important business and scientific achievements, including:
- Obtaining exclusive worldwide commercial license to numerous patent filings and inventions important to achieving transparency and ease of manufacturing of SolarWindow;
- Third-party validation of the Companys power production output model, necessary for providing potential customers with a performance and economic model for calculating cost-savings associated with the application of SolarWindow to building facades;
- Development of new SolarWindow materials, which could lead to improved efficiency, lower production costs and enhanced future commercial manufacturability;
- Development of numerous compounds, processes, and applications which allow for New Energys electricity-generating coatings to remain see-thru, and be applied by spray; and
- Bolstering of the Companys management team and Scientific Advisory Board.
There are nearly five million commercial buildings in America, according to the Energy Information Administration, and more than 80 million single detached homes. New Energys SolarWindow technology is under development for commercial application in such buildings.
