Solar glass v Solar panel comparison

https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/clearvue-solar-glass-mb0920/amp/

Solar quotes says at the bottom of this article that 1m2 of a Solar panel at 17% efficiency creates 170 watts of power.  The most efficient laboratory testing is about 22 to 23% efficiency I recall.

Clearvue glass @ 30 watts per m2 equates to 3% efficiency requiring approx 6 times as much glass to produce the same output as a solar panel.

In some instances solar panels will be the outstanding choice and in other instances solar glass will be the outstanding choice but you cannot compare the 2 together.

In a residential environment or anywhere you don't need or can financially justify solar glass, solar panels will be king but where huge amounts of glass or transparent mediums are required such as office towers, solar glass will become a major power producer.

Getting power output to 50 watts per m2 would be an awesome upgrade but I'll be interested to see how many square metres the shopping centre demo is and how much power is produced per panel to quantify the claim of the current 30 watts as a start.

A structure such as a building 30m wide x 200m tall with 4 glass sides could theoretically have approx 24,000m2 of glass.

30 watts per m2 equals 720kw.
50 watts per m2 equals 1.2mw

This same building in the most simple calculation would have 900m2 of roof space.....30m x 30m and at maximum capacity have 153kw of power producing area....

900 x 17%

only if the roof was completely covered, which is impossible due to plant requirements, runoff etc. I'd say 100kw would be about a rough maximum for this example.

I really like the numbers when solar glass can be installed in the initial build instead of normal glass.

I seriously doubt changing your existing glass for solar glass would make financial sense unless power generation per m2 was substantially increased and as a shareholder realise this.

This year should be very interesting indeed and continue to gladly hold my stock.