"We Have The Power!"

As a home-grown Pacific Northwest company, Renewable Energies, LLC is prepared to guide you in making wise decisions concerning your energy production needs. We design, manufacture, distribute, and sell alternative energy products for the Pacific Northwest. Whatever your renewable energy needs, we can help.

Custom Glass Laminate Solutions

Renewable Energies, LLC also installs custom glass panels built specifically for the job at hand. They usually consist of PV cells in a "glass sandwich", a layer of glass, a layer of PV cells and another layer of glass. The possibilities of this product are nearly endless. It has been used as a facade, an entire roof, a skylight, an atrium or even as an artistic installation.

PHOTOVOLTAICS AS GLAZING MATERIAL

Background

Photovoltaics, (PV) have traditionally been manufactured, sold and installed in retrofit applications. "Standard" PV modules are produced with aluminum frames designed for grouping on racks to be deployed on buildings or on the ground for reduction of a building electrical load after the building has been constructed.

Recently the USA has seen a surge in market demand for PV as a building element, known as "building integrated photovoltaics" (BIPV). This application technique is well known in Europe and has a mature market and several tens of projects in Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Britain. Japan and other Asian markets have recently moved in the direction of BIPV with some installations completed and several projects on the near horizon.