Technology has changed a lot about your home. Your thermostat could be a smart thermostat, your doors might be unlocked by a phone and your refrigerator may have a touchscreen on it. But your windows ...

A lot of sunlight hits tall office buildings, only to go to waste. Their relatively small roofs don't offer much space for solar panels. A solar array crammed onto the top of a typical office tower ...

What if the same pane of solar hardware could favor electricity in July and warmth in January without a motor, sensor, or control system? Scientists at Harvard University have developed a solar system ...

But the lights in the company conference room are being powered by the windows, which are also acting as solar collectors. “That’s kind of the problem we set out to solve with our technology, is how ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Solar-collecting windows could make office buildings and skyscrapers more energy efficient, but harnessing solar power while retaining transparency ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Researchers in Australia have made a breakthrough in increasing the efficiency and stability of solar windows. Solar windows use semi-transparent solar ...

A research team in China combined solar power generation from kesterite thin-film generation with a nickel-cobalt bimetal oxide (NiCoO2) electrochromic window. The proposed prototype not only realizes ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ENEOS Holdings, Inc. (“ENEOS”) and Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. (“NSG”) have begun Japan's first installation of transparent solar panels for use as building ...

Perovskite solar cells are easier to make and customize than silicon ones, but it'll be a few years before you see them on your office window. In a nutshell, perovskite (say that 10 times slow) is the ...

Researchers created transparent solar windows that capture sunlight at the edges, cutting PV cell needs while keeping buildings visually unchanged. The device, called a cholesteric unidirectional ...

(Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images/Visual China Group via Getty Images) The future of energy is transparent, say companies working on clear solar panels. It’s a moonshot-type investment ...