World's first Solar-Powered Windows

In order to make our home energy neutral, a tech startup has recently created the world's first commercial, completely transparent solar-power-generating windows.

A startup named Physee designed the windows in a way that they have solar cells installed in the edges at such particular angles that permits the incoming solar light to be successfully modified into electricity.

The CEO of the startup Ferdinand Grapperhaus exclaimed, “Large commercial estates consume a lot of energy. If you want to make these buildings energy neutral, you never have enough roof surface. Therefore, activating the buildings' facades will significantly contribute to making the buildings energy neutral.”

These solar-powered windows are able to generate approximately 8 to 10 watts of power. Grapperhaus informed Live Science, “This enables the user to charge a phone per every square meter (11 square feet) two times a day.”

The first installation of Physee's PowerWindows was revealed back in June in Netherlands. The headquarters of Netherland's largest bank, Rabobank was fitted with 323 square feet of these windows and the employees were able to plug-in their smart phones in order to charge them through the PowerWindows via USB ports.

These windows had led Physee to win a place on the 2017 list of World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers.

Due to higher costs of wiring of normal electricity for large commercial states, the power-generating windows could prove to be more reasonable because of its low costs.

As Futurism reports, the second installation of these windows are supposed to be coated with a unique material that would change the oncoming visible light to near-infrared light, which will then be transmitted towards the solar cells on the window edges.

"It works similarly to a [glow-in-the-dark star]. The difference is that the glow star emits the green wavelength, but the coating on our windows emits light in near-infrared wavelength." Grapperhaus claimed.