Jean-Jacques Degroof is a venture investor and business academic who lives in both Boston, Massachusetts, and Brussels, Belgium. He is always on the lookout for new technology that promises to disrupt the marketplace. Solar windows are just one technology that has caught Jean-Jacques Degroof’s attention.
Solar windows are structural windows like those that people commonly see in buildings every day. However, they use advanced transparent solar technology that allows them to double as solar panels and deliver the same clean and sustainable electricity as traditional solar panels.
Solar windows are the result of state-of-the-art engineering that enables solar cells to transmit only visible light. To human eyes, this makes them appear entirely clear. Transparent solar technology uses only non-hazardous materials that are abundantly available and follows standard best practices to apply a coating that operates at the optimal “Low-E” industry thermal performance level. Once installed, solar windows can offset as much as 30 percent of total building electricity costs.
