Solar panels keep greenhouses cooler in summer, let the sun through in winter

Spain’s ULMA Agrícola consortium and Tecnalia research center have developed a new type of photovoltaic solar panel for greenhouses that can generate electricity without an adverse effect on the crops grown within, while additionally providing cooling in summer. The system is designed to exploit the annual oscillation – the variation in the height of the sun’s path across the sky over the course of the year. In theory, no solar radiation is compromised over winter, but surplus radiation can be diverted to electricity-generation during summer.

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Posted on January 16th, 2012 by Editor
Filed under: ENERGY COLLECTION, ENERGY USES, HEATING, PLANTS, SOLAR