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How ClearVue is turning everyday buildings into clean energy assets

• The race to cut emissions is moving to the building walls
• When buildings start paying their own power bills
• How ClearVue is turning glass into an energy asset

Net zero often feels like it belongs on government roadmaps and summit stages, not on real construction sites.

But in the real world, where cities keep growing and cranes never seem to leave the skyline, the pressure is already on.

More people means more buildings, more offices, more apartments and more shopping malls. And all of that takes power. A lot of it.

Buildings are actually doing a lot more damage than most people realise.

When you add up the electricity they burn every day and the carbon baked into the materials that go into them, buildings are responsible for roughly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

About 29% comes from running them (lighting, heating, cooling, lifts, servers), and another 11% comes from the concrete, steel and glass that get locked into the structure.

Commercial buildings alone chew through around a quarter of the world’s electricity. And in hot, fast growing cities, cooling loads are only heading one way.

More glass means more sunlight, more aircon, bigger power bills, and in the end…more emissions.

That’s why net zero isn’t really a ‘one day we’ll get there’ problem.

It’s a design problem that needs to be solved at the building level, right now, while all this construction is still happening.

Turning buildings into power generators

That’s the lane Aussie company ClearVue Technologies (ASX:CPV) is driving in.

But instead of bolting solar panels onto buildings, ClearVue builds it straight into the parts that are already there – glass, facades, cladding, skylights and even balustrades.

In the industry this is known as Building Integrated Photovoltaics, or BIPV, where solar becomes part of the building material itself.

The clever bit is how it does that without turning everything into black solar panels.

ClearVue’s solar vision glass keeps a transparent central area, so it still works as proper window glass.

But it uses special coatings and a nanoparticle layer to redirect invisible infrared and UV light toward solar cells placed around the edges of the glass.

To anyone inside it still feels like a normal window, but the energy bill drops because it’s quietly generating solar power.

And this isn’t limited to just windows.

ClearVue has extended the same approach to spandrel panels, cladding, skylights and rooftop glass, which means entire building envelopes can now contribute to energy generation.

The idea is simple.

If every square metre of facade can help produce power, the building starts paying back some of the energy it burns every day, especially in hot cities where cooling costs are brutal.

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Source: Stockhead​​​​​​​