South Korean engineers have unveiled a self-powered smart window that finally solves the two biggest hurdles of modern climate control: high prices and heavy energy consumption. It has been developed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Solar power is the fastest-growing source of new electricity ...

The research team’s semi-transparent solar concentrator can be directly coated onto standard window glass. It uses liquid crystal films to reflect and guide circularly-polarized sunlight to solar ...

A new study highlights a semi-transparent, color-tunable solar cell designed to work in places traditional panels can't, like ...

A new generation of 3D-printed solar cells could let buildings generate power through colorful, semi-transparent windows ...

Researchers at Nanjing University in China claim to have invented a coating that can be use ordinary windows to generate solar energy, an innovation they claim could provide a huge boost to the global ...