Glass for maximising solar energy conversion. 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.

NSG TEC™ is a group of products, including a comprehensive range of TCO glass (Transparent Conductive Oxide coated glass), optimised to suit a variety of thin film photovoltaics, with different haze and conductivity levels.

With its very high solar energy transmittance, our low iron glass Pilkington Optiwhite™ is the ideal cover plate for a range of solar technologies, including Thin Film Photovoltaics, Concentrated Solar Power Technology and Solar Thermal Collectors.

Glass is an integral and important element of solar modules, used to convert solar energy into electricity. In traditional photovoltaics, the solar cells may be encapsulated using toughened high-transmission glass, which protects the cells from the elements.

In crystalline silicon photovoltaics, solar cells are generally connected together and then laminated under toughened, high transmittance glass to produce reliable, weather resistant photovoltaic modules.

Each of our products within the NSG TEC™ range is targeted at a particular thin film photovoltaic technology. The NSG TEC™ descriptive names indicate the technology to which the products are most suited as well as the corresponding technical values.

NSG TEC™ offers a wide variety of thermal and heated glass performance properties, whilst increasing light transmittance and optimizing electrical conductivity. The products are specifically tuned to meet the requirements of a wide range of applications.

Pilkington Sunplus™ is a glass specifically developed for crystalline silicon photovoltaics.

Construction is well underway on a 1.4 MW solar array installation at our Rossford, Ohio site. This project, constructed by AEP OnSite Partners, is scheduled to be completed early next year and will supply about 2.5 million kWh’s of renewable energy annually.

Created to design: translucent linear channel glass with its installation system offers many interesting and varied architectural solutions. Pilkington Profilit™ is an alkali cast glass in U-shape, which is produced according to EN 572, Part 7, using the machine rolling process.