3RD GENERATION PHOTOVOLTAICS FOR A CHANGING WORLD

SKYShades UK is set to enable businesses and the public sector to take advantage of the UK Government’s new Feed-In-Tariffs (FITs) with tensile membrane structures incorporang third generaon solar panels – Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs). These structures can both reduce heang and air condioning costs and produce free electricity that can be sold to the grid.

Solar power in England has seemed for many years to be a frivolous idea mainly due to the fact the UK doesn’t enjoy the warmest or sunniest of climates. Not

anymore, thanks to the development of a third generaon of solar power panels – OPVs.

Using OPV with tensile membrane structures, self-financing Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPVs) are now a reality. Any new or exisng building can benefit from this advance in technology. The OPV panels can not only be fixed to a standard building but because of their flexible nature can also be incorporated into tensile membrane structures. The OPV cells are light- weight, flexible and highly versale and can now be manufactured inexpensively at high speed using coang and prinng technologies.

Inside2Outside Ltd, market leaders in the design and manufacture of canopies, walkways and shelters (www.inside2outside.co.uk), have – for many years – been looking for ways to harness the power of the sun using their membranes. By teaming up with SKYShades Internaonal and Konarka, to create SKYShades (UK) Ltd (www.skyshades.co.uk) and combining the advance in OPV technology with tensile membranes,

harvesng the power of the sun as electricity is now viable in the UK with

electricity producing tensile structures.

With the Government introducon of FITs in April 2010 – a financial incenve to encourage the development of micro generaon facilies – now is the me to bring effecve solar power to the UK. SKYShades is going to do this and is therefore revoluonising the Solar Power Industry. SKYShades UK launched this new technology at the EcoBuild exhibion in early March where they were inundated with interest. Visit www.skyshades.co.uk for more informaon about this excing new product.

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