Jan 27 2010
Entech Solar, Inc. (OTC BB: ENSL.OB) (the “Company”, “Entech Solar”) is pleased to announce the launch and immediate availability of its new Entech™ Tubular Skylight, a state-of-the-art tubular skylight developed based on Entech Solar’s patented Solar Collimator™ technology. This proprietary Solar Collimator is designed to provide superior optical efficiency, increase lumen output, and improve light distribution over conventional tubular skylights, providing enhanced all-day illumination in desired areas.
Entech Tubular Skylight, with patented solar collimator technology
The Entech Tubular Skylight is suitable for most commercial and industrial buildings that can benefit from natural daylighting, such as deep interior spaces of offices, warehouses, retail stores, manufacturing facilities, schools and hospitals. It can also contribute to a building meeting the certification requirements for the LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System, a nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings.
“Our tubular skylight captures daylight at the rooftop and delivers consistent daylight to interior spaces through an exclusive, patented tubular design,” explains Entech Solar’s Product Manager, Jim Lowell. “The Entech Tubular Skylight solves problems that can occur with conventional tubular skylights by taking sunlight from various angles during the day and year, and straightening the light as it reflects down the tube.”
After installing skylights in the warehouse of Entech Solar’s corporate headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas-based AUI Contractors, Inc. is purchasing several for their own facility. AUI Director Matthew Wylie commented “We think this product is an excellent way to bring daylight into our own award-winning headquarters building and plan to recommend this product to our clients. Further, it contributes to our goal of LEED certification for this facility.”
Entech Solar’s Chief Operating Officer, Sean Rooney, comments, “We are excited to launch Entech Solar’s innovative skylight product for sustainable and green building initiatives. The potential reduction in energy usage when natural daylight displaces the use of artificial lighting makes this product an important component of an organization’s overall energy-reduction strategy. It makes good business sense as well as being good for our environment.”
The Entech™ Tubular Skylight is available for flat or sloped roofs. The tubing can be extended to accommodate most roof-to-ceiling distances. There is also an option suitable for buildings, offices or retail businesses that prefer open-grid ceilings.