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Bell Works Begins Installation of US' Largest Photovoltaic Glass Skylight

HOLMDEL, NJ—The installation includes 3,200 skylights spanning the quarter-mile-long atrium roof, covering 60,000 square feet. When it is completed, the photovoltaic skylight will both naturally illuminate the complex while generating free, clean electricity from the sun.

By Steve Lubetkin | stevelubetkin | Updated on February 13, 2017

Interior view of Bell Works atrium, showing skylight, Holmdel, NJ. Interior view of Bell Works atrium, showing skylight, Holmdel, NJ.

HOLMDEL, NJ—Somerset Development has begun construction of the largest photovoltaic glass skylight in the United States at Bell Works, Somerset’s revitalization of the two-million-square-foot former Bell Labs facility into an iconic mixed-use “metroburb” in Holmdel, NJ.

Spearheaded by Onyx Solar, a global company manufacturing transparent photovoltaic glass for Building Integrated Photovoltaics, the installation includes 3,200 skylights spanning the quarter-mile-long atrium roof, covering 60,000 square feet. When it is completed, the PV skylight will both naturally illuminate the complex while generating free, clean electricity from the sun.

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