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Dr Hegedus Confirms SolarWindow™ Could Provide Significant Amounts of Energy when Commercialized
New Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NENE) today announced that Dr Hegedus, a widely-published expert and authority in photovoltaics, has validated the Company's early power production model for their SolarWindow™ technology.
"I'm satisfied that New Energy's preliminary power production model calculations appear accurate and appropriate, and based on reasonable assumptions. The results indicate that even at moderate efficiencies SolarWindow™ could be capable of providing a significant amount of energy, following its successful development and ultimate commercial installation," explained Dr. Hegedus, following his review of the Company's early models to calculate SolarWindow's power production when applied to an entire building as a 'system'.
Dr. Hegedus is credited with more than 90 scientific publications related to thin film solar cell fabrication, characterization, manufacturing methods and reliability studies. Dr. Hegedus also serves as Principal Investigator of industry-funded programs targeting improved power output of solar cells through chemical processes. Working through commercial partnerships, Dr. Steven S. Hegedus has developed technologies to help characterize the stability of organic photovoltaic modules under varying environmental conditions, an important hurdle in ensuring long-term performance. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering.
The independent confirmation by Dr Hegedus has spurred active development of advanced 'commercial-use' models for calculating power production and energy savings for the first-of-its-kind technology capable of generating electricity on glass while remaining see-thru. Once developed, an advanced power output model which accounts for performance and operating characteristics can serve as a basis for preliminary system sizing, value engineering, economic analysis, and power offset estimates -- important considerations to prospective SolarWindow™ commercial customers. "Today's validation of our commercial-use power production model is an important step in providing potential customers with a performance and economic model for calculating cost-savings associated with the application of SolarWindow™ to building facades," explained Mr. John A. Conklin, President and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc. Key to maximizing energy production, SolarWindow™ can be applied to the extensive glass surfaces on commercial skyscrapers, an important advantage over conventional solar systems confined to installation on space-prohibitive rooftops. The prospect of creating the world's first-of-its-kind SolarWindow™, currently under development, is made possible when researchers spray the Company's novel, electricity-generating, see-thru coatings onto glass surfaces. Unique to SolarWindow™, these coatings remain see-thru when applied to glass, and generate electricity under both natural and artificial light conditions. As part of its ongoing efforts to develop SolarWindow™ for commercial use, New Energy recently obtained an exclusive worldwide commercial license to numerous discoveries important to achieving transparency and ease of manufacturing. For more information about the licensing arrangements Click Here. Back from Dr Hegedus to New Energy Technologies
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