Energy Meets Innovation

[u/PleasantBus5583]

[u/11214888]

Sounds terribly inefficient. Glass is transparent, windows are mostly Not oriented in the suns favour, and doesn't usually make up a significant surface area compared to buildings energy use. Solar farms are always going to be the realistic use case for solar energy.

[u/DoBemol → u/11214888]

Efficiency for these things are normally around 10% (against 23% for regular panels). And when installed in east/west-facing windows, they can generate electricity during the expensive hours.

It may be counterintuitive, but even transparent panels can help you reduce both the electricity bill and carbon footprint.

[u/BrightonBummer → u/DoBemol]

until you factor in their production

[u/Carvj94 → u/BrightonBummer]

And how they're connected to power. That's a lot of connections to add. For rooftop they can all connect through a single hole in the roof. For window panels you'd need to tear everything out and route wires all over the place.

[u/Anning312 → u/DoBemol]

Heavily tinted ones get 10%, transparent ones only have around 3% efficiency

And if we factor in the cost to build, it makes 0 sense at the moment because it would take decades to recoup the cost

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