{"id":170646,"date":"2023-08-26T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T22:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/transparent-solar-panels-will-soon-become-a-window-of-energy-and-light-in-your-home"},"modified":"2023-08-26T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T22:22:25","slug":"transparent-solar-panels-will-soon-become-a-window-of-energy-and-light-in-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/transparent-solar-panels-will-soon-become-a-window-of-energy-and-light-in-your-home","title":{"rendered":"Transparent solar panels will soon become a window of energy and light in your home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transparent-solar-panels-will-soon-become-a-window-of-energy-and-light-in-your-home2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transparent solar windows are not only generating news as demonstration projects\u2014many have already been set up. On the list of installations for UE Power are its own offices in Redwood City, California, at the R&amp;D facility of its partner in Northwood, Ohio, a commercial office building in Boulder, Colorado, and in Tokyo, Japan. In addition, it has an installation at Michigan State University. UbiQD also claims to have installations in multiple U.S. states, which include a Holiday Inn hotel, its own headquarters in Los Alamos, and the Department of Energy\u2019s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s the premium for transparency?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>UbiQD\u2019s product isn\u2019t commercially available yet, but McDaniel expects the premium for transparent solar power to be not more than 30 percent over ordinary windows. He said that \u201cTraditional solar cells are not sold at a cost per watt, not based on area, like windows. The additional window cost, per watt, is similar to utility-scale solar. We have a similar payback time to traditional solar [before incentives].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparent solar windows are not only generating news as demonstration projects\u2014many have already been set up. On the list of installations for UE Power are its own offices in Redwood City, California, at the R&amp;D facility of its partner in Northwood, Ohio, a commercial office building in Boulder, Colorado, and in Tokyo, Japan. In addition, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}