New Energy Achieves Three-Fold Increase in ‘Active Area’ of SolarWindow™, Critical to Maximizing Power Output

March 16, 2011

COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NENE), today announced that researchers developing the Company’s proprietary SolarWindow™, capable of generating electricity on see-thru glass, have successfully achieved a three-fold increase in the number of solar cells layered onto glass surfaces -- a significant step towards maximizing power output. Today’s accomplishment is made possible when researchers spray see-thru and semi-transparent electricity-generating coatings onto glass surfaces, in order to first create a working SolarWindow™ prototype. Working with this small lab-scale prototype, researchers have achieved three times more cell occupancy (active area per square inch) over predecessor prototypes. This increase in active area results from a new design.

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