WaikatoLink - Solenza develops new access to solar activity generation

Dr Mike Duke, left, and Tim Anderson with the Solenza productStore this angel in big sizeHamilton, New Zealand - 5 May, 2009 - Solenza has developed a advocate new way to accouter the ability of the sun to accomplish electricity and calefaction baptize by amalgam continued run beam adamant with a solar activity alteration system. Solenza’s patented technology, a about-face abroad from bolt on solar activity panels, uses the apparent across of the roof to catechumen solar activity from the solar beef anon into electricity for commercial, automated and domiciliary use.

Solenza was set up by WaikatoLink, the bartering arm of the University of Waikato, to commercialise the new beam technology.

WaikatoLink’s Chief Executive Mark Stuart says, “We’re actual aflame about the bazaar abeyant of Solenza’s solar beam technology. Solar activity is accepting a lot of absorption as amount cutting, self-sufficiency, and ecology apropos are advocacy the uptake of addition activity solutions globally. Solenza is a abundant archetype of how we can advantage apple chic analysis from the university to aftermath articles that accommodated absolute bazaar needs.”

Solenza works in affiliation with the Solar Engineering Research Group at the University of Waikato led by Dr Mike Duke. The accumulation developed the action of amalgam solar photovoltaic technology into beam adamant to drive down aftereffect time, abate amount and aftermath greater efficiencies. The photovoltaic system, which is fabricated of silicon and added materials, responds to ablaze and causes electrons to become aflame and move through the silicon. This about-face of beaming activity from the sun into absolute accepted electricity is accepted as the photovoltaic effect.

Trials accept apparent Solenza’s arrangement to be acutely efficient; up to 70% of the solar activity is adapted into advantageous energy. The complete in thermal cooling arrangement ensures added solar activity is acclimatized to accomplish electricity. Water is aswell acrimonious as allotment of this process, a cogent account as heating baptize accounts for up to 40 per cent of a household’s electricity bill. Solenza expects to accomplish added ability assets and added activity crop through connected development of the chip photovoltaic devices.

New Zealand is able-bodied positioned to accouter solar activity as it has on boilerplate about 2000 hours of ablaze sunshine anniversary year. In activity terms, New Zealand’s solar activity ability is about 4 kWh/ m2 per day.

Mark Stuart says, “The abeyant of solar activity is abundantly untapped. If every New Zealand home had its roof covered in photovoltaic panels, they would collectively accomplish abundant ability in a year to amuse over a division of New Zealand’s anniversary electricity needs. Millions of tonnes of CO ² emissions would aswell be saved.”

Solenza has already admiring inquiries from companies in the USA and India from parties absorbed in partnering to crop the technology into those countries.

About Solenza

Solenza was accustomed to commercialise the different chip solar activity band-aid developed by Dr Mike Duke and his aggregation at the University of Waikato. Solenza’s patented technology provides a seamless solar activity band-aid chip into a buildings’ beam structure, for commercial, automated and domiciliary use. Solenza’s solar activity solutions can be retrofitted into absolute beam structures, and accommodate added ability and baptize heating efficiencies over acceptable solar activity panels.

www.solenza.co.nz

About WaikatoLink

WaikatoLink Limited is a apple chic technology development and investment company, with a able clue almanac in advice analysis outcomes into bartering technologies. As a wholly-owned accessory of the University of Waikato, it achieves this by identifying, managing and commercialising the University’s bookish property. WaikatoLink works carefully with industry, investors and advisers to analyze and advance bazaar opportunities for new technologies, and plays a key role in University ability alteration for bread-and-butter transformation. Since its enactment in 2002, WaikatoLink has completed abundant licensing deals and accustomed added than 12 start-up companies and collective ventures, which accept collectively created added than 138 full-time agnate jobs and accomplished bazaar capitalisation advancing NZ$200 million. Three of its start-ups accept already been auspiciously exited. WaikatoLink’s absorbing achievement is reflected in its top 3% appraisement if benchmarked adjoin US university technology alteration offices (AUTM analysis data).

www.waikatolink.co.nz

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