Generating Energy With Glass

Glass engineers from Bavaria & the Pilkington research centre (UK), have developed a special solar glass coating that is applied to the glass in a pyrolytic process. This type of coating was patented in 2007. The coated glass, which serves as the basis for a solar module with an electrically conductive surface and low electrical resistance, allows the complete elimination of silicon, which was previously considered indispensable. Without this increasingly expensive raw material, solar modules can be produced at a much lower cost.