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Imagine a city with the ability to harvest its own energy needs Transparent solar power coatings on windows, along with other recent innovations in the solar industry such as printing solar panels on smartphones and laptop cases, or embedding solar panels into roadways all recognize that non-intrusively adapting to how humans currently operate means that solar has the real potential to power the future.
e 2015 Paris Climate Conference made it clear that the world has changed and the low carbon economy is not only inevitable, it is now irreversible. On December 7th, the solar industry announced the launch
of the Global Solar Council (GSC) in an attempt to share best practices and bring the solar power industry together at an international level.
e Chairman of the GSC, Bruce Douglas stated: “ ere is consensus that solar power will become the principal source
of electricity generation. It has a hugely important role to play in the international e orts to ultimately eliminate carbon emissions from the power sector.”
As the world works to implement the Paris climate agreement, market forces are nally working in the planet’s favor. In the wake of COP21, U.S. solar stocks rose by 5 percent and weeks later when an extension for U.S. tax credits was agreed upon, those same stocks popped by 30 percent.
For all of the skeptics who couldn’t imagine solar technology would come
so far, creativity, hard work, and human determination continue to transform the solar industry and those same qualities will drive the transition to a low carbon future.
John A. Conklin is the president and CEO
of SolarWindow Technologies, Inc., located
in Columbia, Maryland. He possesses more than 30 years of industrial, commercial, renewable and alternative energy experience, and has pioneered many innovative energy approaches. As CEO of SolarWindow Technologies, Inc., Conklin is overseeing the development of the world’s rst of its kind see-through electricity generating technology for glass and exible plastic that has the promise to turn tall towers and skyscrapers into electricity generating buildings.
SolarWindow Technologies, Inc.
www.solarwindow.com
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Neutral bar adapter
ILSCO’s latest connector is a neutral bar adapter, Type NBST. is adapter enables retro ts
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