Photovoltaics and the Environment Photovoltaics, an environmentally friendly energy supply. Solar energy is the main source of energy on earth. Solar panels can harness this renewable energy directly and generate electricity or heat. Solar panels are environmentally friendly and reliable.

Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics Characteristics of crystalline silicon photovoltaics. Crystalline silicon photovoltaics is the most widely used photovoltaic technology. Crystalline silicon photovoltaics are modules built using crystalline silicon solar cells (c-Si), developed from the microelectronics technology industry.

For BIPV applications, thin film photovoltaics can offer excellent aesthetics. Thin film photovoltaic modules also benefit from a relatively small drop in power output under partial shadowing when compared with crystalline silicon photovoltaics.This gives thin film photovoltaic modules greater design flexibility when integrated into the building envelope.

Solar Glass for Solar Panels The NSG Group offers a range of specialised glass and coated glass products used in all of the leading solar energy technologies, including thin film photovoltaics, crystalline silicon photovoltaics, concentrated solar power technology and solar thermal collectors.

Pilkington Sunplus™ BIPV. Pilkington Sunplus™ BIPV provides renewable power generating architectural glass solutions for building facades, windows, roof glazing, etc. with a high degree of transparency or full spandrel PV elements, combining efficiency and design. BIPV stands for Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) and refers to a building component which has been enhanced to perform ...

Used in Thin Film Photovoltaics, NSG TEC™ is a range of coated glass designed and optimised for each of the main thin film photovoltaic technologies, including amorphous silicon (a-Si), tandem (a-Si/μ/Si), cadmium telluride (CdTe), copper indium (gallium) diselenide (CIS, CIGS) and dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSC).

Concentrated Solar Power Technology Characteristics of concentrated solar power technology. Concentrated solar power technology uses solar mirrors to concentrate sunlight.

NSG Group, the owner of the Pilkington brand, and one of the world’s largest glass producers, and Solaria Corporation, global provider of solar module technologies, today announced that the Pilkington Sunplus™ BIPV powered-by-NEXBuilding has passed stringent testing by Kiwa Netherlands according to IEC61215 and IEC61730 certification standards. . The receipt of this certification from Kiwa ...