This demonstration marks the primary set up of NEXT’s photovoltaic window expertise on a constructing
VENTURA, Calif., January 19, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NEXT Power Applied sciences has put in home windows which are producing solar energy at Patagonia’s company headquarters, marking the primary time NEXT’s window expertise is being demonstrated on a constructing and furthering Patagonia’s dedication to utilizing enterprise to implement options to the environmental disaster.
This press launch options multimedia. View the total launch right here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230119005230/en/
Photograph by Ethan VanDusen, courtesy of Patagonia
NEXT developed a proprietary clear photovoltaic (PV) coating that transforms business home windows into energy-generating home windows. Patagonia, the outside attire firm primarily based in Ventura, labored with NEXT to put in 22 of the home windows on the south-facing facade of the Olive Constructing on Patagonia’s essential campus. The constructing homes workplaces, an worker health club and climbing wall. The home windows are a manufacturing demonstration of how NEXT’s clear photo voltaic expertise could be seamlessly built-in into business buildings to generate electrical energy to energy the constructing and alleviate pressure on the grid.
NEXT’s home windows put in at Patagonia ship devoted energy to the constructing for charging telephones and different units whereas workers use the neighborhood areas. Workers even have entry to proprietary metrics with real-time energy output and charging data to tell customers of the advantages of the home windows.
Companions in Creating Higher Buildings for Tomorrow
NEXT estimates that its home windows are able to producing 20-30% of the ability produced by standard photo voltaic panels alone. Nevertheless, by leveraging the underutilized floor space of the constructing facade, versus remoted rooftops, NEXT’s home windows have the potential to provide vital onsite renewable energy, offsetting anyplace from 10-40% of a typical business constructing’s vitality load. The home windows additionally seize and convert infrared gentle, which reduces the constructing’s warmth load and additional alleviates the prevailing pressure on a constructing’s energy infrastructure.
“Deploying this expertise with Patagonia, some of the revered manufacturers in sustainability, is a big milestone for us. It demonstrates Patagonia’s dedication to main by instance on local weather change and shines a lightweight on improvements that may assist business buildings obtain net-zero vitality and sustainability objectives,” stated Daniel Emmett, CEO and co-founder of NEXT Power Applied sciences. “We’re grateful for the chance to collaborate with Patagonia to show our expertise in motion and share the quite a few advantages to constructing house owners, builders and occupants, together with lowered working bills, elevated constructing worth, improved constructing resilience, relieved strain and reliance on the grid, and lowered carbon footprint.”
“International constructing inventory is anticipated to double by 2060, and if clear PV home windows could be deployed extensively on buildings throughout this timeframe, they’ve the potential to cut back GHG emissions from the constructed atmosphere by over 1 gigaton per yr, an enormous alternative for local weather impression,” Emmett continued.
“We’ve been utilizing solar energy at our headquarters in Ventura since 2005 and at our Reno Distribution Heart since 1996,” stated Corley Kenna, head of Communications and Public Coverage at Patagonia. “We depend on 100% renewable electrical energy for our owned and operated services in the US and 76% globally, achieved via on-site and off-site installations. We’ve got funded greater than 1,000 photo voltaic arrays on properties throughout the U.S. and have helped set up greater than 600 kilowatts of solar energy globally to assist agriculture. Discovering higher methods of doing enterprise is one thing we at all times try to do and we’re happy to associate with NEXT Power to assist us be a extra accountable firm.”
Printing Photovoltaic Movie
Companions on this challenge embrace Walters & Wolf, who designed, fabricated, and put in the glazing system integrating NEXT’s energy-harvesting home windows. The glass fabricator of the module models was carried out by SolarFab, a division of GlassFab Tempering Companies. NEXT’s home windows are created by printing a clear photovoltaic coating straight onto architectural glass. The coating is then sealed behind a secondary sheet of glass and subsequently built-in into a standard glazing system which carries cables that ship renewable vitality for use onsite within the constructing.
“We spent years of R&D to design façade methods for Constructing Built-in Photovoltaics (BIPV). The dream of a seamless plug and play BIPV façade is a actuality, we’re all very excited for the probabilities,” stated Shiloh Kocelj, BIPV Director of Walters & Wolf.
This set up is the primary time that NEXT has demonstrated its expertise on the facade of a constructing. This challenge follows the demonstration of three different freestanding facade models containing the window expertise, one every in Santa Barbara, CA, Fremont, CA, and Paris, France. For extra data on the set up, please go to NEXT’s web site at www.nextenergytech.com.
About NEXT Power Applied sciences, Inc.
NEXT Power Applied sciences is a Santa Barbara, California firm growing clear photovoltaic window expertise that permits architects and constructing house owners to rework home windows and glass facades into producers of low-cost, on-site, renewable vitality for buildings. NEXT’s expertise is enabled by proprietary natural semiconducting supplies which are earth-abundant, low-cost, and are coated as an ink in a high-speed, low-cost, and low vitality course of. For extra data, go to www.nextenergytech.com.
About Patagonia
We’re in enterprise to avoid wasting our dwelling planet. Based by Yvon Chouinard in 1973, Patagonia is an out of doors attire firm primarily based in Ventura, California. As an authorized B Company and a founding member of 1% for the Planet, the corporate is acknowledged internationally for its product high quality and environmental activism, in addition to its contributions of almost $200 million to environmental organizations. Its distinctive possession construction displays that Earth is its solely shareholder: Earnings not reinvested again into the enterprise are paid as dividends to guard the planet.
View supply model on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230119005230/en/
Contacts
James Conway | nextenergy@104west.com | 104 West for NEXT Power Applied sciences
J.J Huggins | John.Huggins@patagonia.com | Patagonia
