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PowerNEXT - Square Corners Light
PowerNEXT is an innovative sustainable energy solution that encompasses four key advancements designed to enhance efficiency and adaptability in renewable energy projects. The first innovation involves a lightweight steel structure made from prefabricated cold-rolled profiles, reducing each unit's weight by 30% and significantly lowering installation costs. The second innovation is a robust business case backed by economic real estate advisors, emphasizing the importance of sustainability in asset value. The third involves advanced wind turbines, capable of generating up to four times more energy with improved performance in low and high wind conditions. Lastly, PowerNEXT Light provides versatile architectural solutions without wind turbines, offering cooling benefits for bifacial solar panels and enabling integration with building designs. This comprehensive system offers a scalable solution for renewable energy installations across diverse architectural landscapes.
PowerNEST is designed to fit seamlessly on most square and rectangular buildings and provide optimal wind efficiency with minimal modifications. Of course, there are buildings where PowerNEST's square corners are technically or architecturally unsuitable. For these situations, the fourth and latest PowerNEXTinnovation provides a solution.
With the help of architect Annebregje Snijders, we developed a version of our solution without wind turbines, with many other advantages:
- More freedom in material selection and architectural design. Thus, an application form can also be designed in consultation with the architect of the building.
- PowerNEXT Light is suitable for buildings where 'ordinary' solar panels are not profitable due to fire safety and the high cost of fire insurance. This is because the panels 'float' above the roof surface on a steel structure and the wind also cools them on both the top and bottom.
- It also retains the other positive effects on solar generation known to PowerNEXT. In addition to wind cooling the solar panels, the bifacial solar panels generate energy not only with the top but also with the bottom, thanks to the reflection of the sun. In addition, the elevated structure allows the panels to be installed above existing roof installations, allowing a much larger surface area to be utilized.
- The design is compatible with the existing architecture of a building or can unite different-looking buildings within the same complex into a single entity.
- Does the building have a green challenge? PowerNEXT Light offers many different options for roof gardens. Roof gardens and solar panels no longer have to be mutually exclusive.