Semi-transparent solar panels for greenhouses
Read ArticleDate of Conference
December 6-7, 2022
Published In
“Exponential Technologies and Global Challenges: Moving toward a new culture of entrepreneurship and innovation for sustainable development”
Location of Conference
Virtual Edition
Authors
Torres, Lina
Botero, Michelle
Vargas, Juliana
Maquilon, Cristian
Carrascal, Angel
Abstract
The product created by the company Idea Box is based on a panel made as a semi-transparent sheet that will take solar energy to generate electricity in the greenhouse and allow crops to obtain the solar radiation needed to generate Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR). The proposal of semi-transparent panels is innovative and meets the objectives of sustainable development, it is also efficient to have an inexhaustible source of energy such as solar photovoltaic energy. In general, these semi-transparent panels will be designed to transmit to the plants only the wavelengths of light that are necessary for photosynthesis, while the other part of the spectrum that is not used will be filtered to generate electricity in the greenhouse.