Energy Curtain – Providing Shade and Light

The Energy Curtain is a novel and attractive alternative for a window blind. Using special solar-energy collecting cells on the outer side of the blind, the blind stores up energy during the day. Then at night, you can have the blinds glowing to provide you with free lighting. However, the blinds do need to be down during the day time in order to charge up.

With so many solar products, often the product looks pretty basic or flimsy. This is one of a few products that I’ve seen that actually looks great and has a functional aspect. Unfortunately, the energy curtains are not available to buy at the time of writing.                                

The curtains were designed by Anders Ernevi, Margot Jacobs, Ramia Mazé, Carolin Müller, Johan Redström and Linda Worbin for the Interactive Institute.

Source: Design Boom, Images courtesy of Interactive Institute