{"id":5075,"date":"2017-11-07T14:42:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elinare.com\/?p=5075\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:50:50","slug":"building-integrated-solar-panels-from-dubai-produce-clean-energy-and-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/building-integrated-solar-panels-from-dubai-produce-clean-energy-and-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Building integrated solar panels from Dubai produce clean energy \u2014 and color"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States could obtain 40 percent of its energy solely from\u00a0rooftop solar<\/a>\u00a0(with sufficient political will). But what if\u00a0solar panels<\/a>\u00a0could also boost architectural aesthetics?\u00a0Dubai<\/a>-based\u00a0Emirates Insolaire<\/a>\u00a0hoped to do just that with their Kromatix technology, providing an alternative to the blue or black panels that adorn many roofs. Plus, their solar products aren\u2019t limited to rooftops \u2014 they can also be\u00a0integrated<\/a>\u00a0in balconies or facades.<\/p>\n

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Emirates Insolaire, a joint venture of\u00a0Dubai Investments PJSC<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0SwissINSO<\/a>, is changing our vision of\u00a0solar<\/a>\u00a0with their Kromatix technology, developed with the\u00a0Swiss Federal Institute of Technology<\/a>. Emirates Insolaire offers Kromatix\u00a0solar glass<\/a>\u00a0in gold, green, or terracotta, with an opaque finish that hides the power-generating technology inside. Solar transmittance varies among colors, but Emirates Insolaire said it is always greater than 85 percent. They also offer Kromatix modules manufactured with their solar glass that have an average efficiency of above 15 percent.<\/p>\n

The company doesn\u2019t use pigments to color their solar glass, but rather \u201ca complex nano-scale multilayer deposition by plasma process,\u201d and say the color will remain stable as time passes. According to Emirates Insolaire\u2019s website, \u201cThe colored appearance results from the reflection of a narrow spectral band in the visible part of the solar spectrum. The rest of the solar radiation is transmitted to the solar panel to be converted into\u00a0energy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The thickness of the solar glass is between 3.2 and eight millimeters. SwissINSO says the Kromatix colored solar panels can be integrated on facades and rooftops of all sorts of structures, from private homes to high-rise buildings.<\/p>\n

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Electrek also reported<\/a>\u00a0the Kromatix products are affordable; they estimated a 5.5 kilowatt solar system would cost between $1,300 and $1,500 per home. They said not counting tax credits or incentives, the system would cover the cost of coloring in a little over one and a half years.<\/p>\n

Emirates Insolaire\u2019s products have been installed across Europe, including at this school in\u00a0Copenhagen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The United States could obtain 40 percent of its energy solely from\u00a0rooftop solar\u00a0(with sufficient political will). But what if\u00a0solar panels\u00a0could also boost architectural aesthetics?\u00a0Dubai-based\u00a0Emirates Insolaire\u00a0hoped to do just that with their Kromatix technology, providing an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5088,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elinare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}