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Solar in technicolor

Colored building-integrated PV (BIPV) modules can turn building facades into art, with companies like Kameleon Solar, FuturaSun, and Onyx leading the way in module and glass design. However, Büsra Yilmaz Depondt, chief technology officer at Kameleon Solar, says developers who focus solely on aesthetics tend to neglect crucial areas like efficiency and safety.

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Blathnaid O’Dea

04 Aug 2025

This 321 Wp installation uses Kameleon Solar’s ColorBlast design to reimagine the exterior of rental flats in The Hague, drawing inspiration from 19th-century traditional Dutch designs. | Image: Team SUM/Kameleon Solar

In the past few years, colored BIPV cell and module technology has progressed enormously, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. Much of this improvement is in the hands of research teams. In recent months, pv magazine has reported on colored BIPV breakthroughs coming from Fraunhofer ISE and EPFL, to name a …

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