Featured in FUTURE PV – 09-2014

Power shingles

BIPV: The small field of solar shingle manufacturers is beginning to expand, cutting installation costs, improving roof and solar integration, incorporating new materials.

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Charles W. Thurston

15 Sep 2014

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Transforming an asphalt roof shingle into a solar generator hasn’t been easy. But the nascent field of U.S. solar shingle manufacturers is beginning to expand from its small base in building-integrated PV (BIPV), leveraging their systemic reductions in installation costs, their improved roof and solar integration, and their continuing march-out of newer materials. Dow and …

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