Soltech – Genk

ColorBlast® Design – Grayscale design translation
The photograph portrayed on the facade shows a mine worker in front of the old coal mining site and was taken from the city’s archives. This image was scaled up to 7 x 12 meters in size and translated to the ColorBlast color spectrum.
For colored solar panels similar to ColorBlast, different colors transmit different quantities of light, which usually causes unacceptable levels of resistance in the solar panels that can lead to hotspots (a potential fire hazard). Not with our ColorBlast Design technology; Kameleon Solar’s own design translation software can translate images in such a way that all the different colors fall within an acceptable range of light transmission, thereby making it the only safe way to translate multi-colored images onto solar panels.
Our design translation software not only produces safe translations of an image, but provides fast and realistic previews of the end-result in different power ranges, so that architects, building owners and designers can make well-informed design and power decisions up-front.

PV manufacturing returns to Europe
Soltech’s new factory marks the vital return of the photovoltaic industry to European grounds, much like Kameleon Solar’s factory in the Netherlands. This strengthens Europe’s position by making it more independent from external energy providers. By manufacturing PV modules in the countries where they are used, we not only reduce the C02 footprint of transportation, but also of the manufacturing process itself. The Soltech factory, for example, generates more electricity with its building integrated PV modules than it uses in the production of its modules.