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Development Begins on World’s First Electricity-Generating Windows

Designed for retrofitting existing homes and commercial buildings.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. has begun initial work on transparent electricity-generating veneers. These could be applied directly on to existing windows of homes and commercial buildings, for which there are an estimated over 430 million square feet of windows in the US alone.   To address the marketplace for existing properties, especially the five million tall towers that consume almost 40% of the electricity generated in the US, SolarWindow envisions transparent flexible veneers that hav...

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