NEXT Energy Technologies

NEXT Energy Technologies is a developer of transparent energy harvesting window technology designed to offer windows that generate energy from the sun, with the company's technology offering transparency and efficiency, even under high-angle and low-light conditions. The coatings developed by NEXT Energy Technologies are integrated into dual-pane windows and work to eliminate encapsulation costs. This technology is intended to allow buildings to convert ultraviolet and infrared light into electricity to allow buildings to produce renewable energy and net-zero standards.

NEXT Energy Technologies was founded in 2010 by Corey Hoven and Daniel Emmett and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.

NEXT uses the company's coating to convert infrared and ultraviolet light to enable buildings to power themselves from a renewable energy source. This helps these buildings and the companies achieve net-zero goals and reduce their stress on the energy grid. NEXT Energy Technologies suggests their coatings come at a lower cost than conventional solar panels.

The integration of NEXT's technology comes at the point of glass fabrication, with technology enabled by proprietary organic semiconducting materials that are earth abundant and low cost, and are coated as an ink in a high-speed and low-energy process. This printing process uses slot die coating equipment, modified with proprietary parts related to the coating, and fits those into a window manufacturing line to print directly on glass.

The NEXT coating process.

The capital-efficient process that NEXT uses is intended to reduce the risk to the companies' customers, while also removing barriers to adoption and helping the company accelerate the speed to market. All while working to create a product that works and is effective for their customers.