But the building also has one of the world’s first installations of solar-window technology—transparent panels that look like ordinary windows, but also invisibly generate energy.

At first, a solar panel window might seem like an oxymoron. After all, solar panels are supposed to absorb light while windows let it through. Windows and solar panels are basically polar opposites.

Instead, they attacked a stainless steel panel installed beneath the window of the flat above. This panel was covered in timber and polystyrene insulation. As the heat from the fire rose, the metal ...

Making a solar panel that’s also a window involves a bit of creativity: It has to be something that both absorbs light, to make electricity, and lets light through, to let people see in and out.

CUMBERLAND — From window insulation to solar panels, members of the Cumberland Congregational Church are looking to button their building up and educate the community about how to do it, too ...

If you’re thinking about going solar, we’ve got good news: your options have just been expanded. announced that their new cells can produce 50 times the energy of panels commonly in use today.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has developed a working window that's also a solar panel. Using the experimental solar material perskovite, NREL scientists crafted a window with a ...