10.03.2021
The project is featured on HortiDaily.com, an online meeting place for the international horticulture industry.
The article looks at grape growing under transparent solar glass and at what the greenhouse energy balance looks like when the roof itself produces electricity.
More coverage is collected under press; the technology itself is described on the project page.
Related material: the project, press coverage and the collaborators behind the technology.
The panel is a laminate: an active layer carried between sheets of architectural glass, sealed at the edges and mounted in the same profiles a greenhouse or facade already uses. Nothing about the installation asks the builder to learn a new trade, which matters more for adoption than any laboratory figure.
Transparency is the design parameter that everything else follows from. A pane that passes most of the visible light leaves the crop unaffected but generates modestly; one that passes less produces more current and starts to shade. The specification is chosen per project, against the crop and the latitude it will grow at.