Clear Solar Corporation

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Attribute	Details
Name	Clear Solar Corporation
Tagline	Applying space-grade innovation to solve the overlooked clean energy challenge of dust on solar panels.
Headquarters	Hurley, NY
Founded	2025
Stage	Pre-Seed
Business Model	Hardware + Software
Industry	Cleantech / Climatetech
Technology	Robotics
Geography	North America
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Michael Provenzano, Cedric Corpa de la Fuente
Funding Label	Pre-seed

Links

• Website: https://clearsolarco.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clear-solar-corporation

Executive Summary

Clear Solar Corporation is a pre-seed hardware startup applying a NASA-patented electrodynamic dust shield to the problem of soiling on utility-scale solar farms [Carnegie Mellon VentureBridge, 2025]. The company’s initial product, ClearAdvantage, is a retrofit film and electronics kit designed to be adhered to existing panels [F6S, retrieved 2026].

Founder Michael Provenzano brings a background in space robotics and a prior exit from the sale of Invite Media to Google [Business Insider, 2010]; [Robotics Factory, retrieved 2026]. The company is currently in the VentureBridge accelerator, with a stated plan to raise a $500,000 friends-and-family and grant round [Carnegie Mellon VentureBridge, 2025].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Core product description and founder background are corroborated by multiple sources; funding plan and market claims are single-source from a founder interview.

Taxonomy Snapshot

Axis	Classification
Stage	Pre-Seed
Business Model	Hardware + Software
Industry / Vertical	Cleantech / Climatetech
Technology Type	Robotics
Geography	North America
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Solo Founder
Funding	Pre-seed

How the Company Got Here

Clear Solar Corporation was founded in 2025 to address energy loss from dust accumulation on panels. The company is headquartered in Hurley, New York, and operates as a pre-seed stage venture [Carnegie Mellon VentureBridge, 2025]. The founding premise is to apply engineering principles developed for space robotics to a terrestrial clean energy problem [ClearSolarCo, retrieved 2026].

The company's early trajectory is tied to its participation in Carnegie Mellon University's VentureBridge accelerator program in 2025. According to the VentureBridge interview, the founder's immediate plan was to secure approximately $500,000 in a combined friends-and-family and grant funding round [Carnegie Mellon VentureBridge, 2025].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Core company details are confirmed by a single, credible institutional source. The stated fundraising intent is sourced from a founder interview but lacks independent corroboration of closure or terms.

Product and Technology

Clear Solar's initial product is a retrofit system designed to address dust accumulation on existing utility-scale solar arrays. The core technology is a licensed NASA patent for an electrodynamic dust shield (EDS) [F6S, retrieved 2026] [ClearSolarCo, retrieved 2026].

The proposed product, named ClearAdvantage, consists of a plastic film embedded with power electronics that can be adhered directly to solar panels on-site [Carnegie Mellon VentureBridge, 2025]. The company notes the underlying EDS technology has potential applications on autonomous vehicle sensors, aircraft, and agricultural systems [F6S, retrieved 2026]. Public materials claim the team has over four years of direct experience with the EDS technology [ClearSolarCo, retrieved 2026].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Product description is based on a single detailed interview and company claims; no independent technical validation or demonstration footage is publicly available.

Where the Demand Sits

Clear Solar is targeting the operational expenditure (OPEX) segment for utility-scale solar installations in arid and semi-arid regions. Mineral dust can decrease solar energy yield by up to 60% annually in arid regions [ClearSolarCo, retrieved 2026]. Cleaning a one-gigawatt solar farm in such an environment reportedly consumes 36 million gallons of water each year [ClearSolarCo, retrieved 2026].

Metric	Value
Energy Loss in Arid Regions	60 %
Water for 1GW Farm Cleaning	36 million gallons

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Market sizing claims are sourced solely from the company's website and have not been independently verified by third-party research reports.

Competitive Landscape

Company	Positioning	Stage / Funding	Notable Differentiator	Source
Clear Solar Corporation	Retrofit electrodynamic dust shield (EDS) film for utility-scale solar.	Pre-seed; targeting $500k friends & family/grant round.	Licensing NASA-patented EDS technology; aims for waterless, automated cleaning.	[Carnegie Mellon VentureBridge, 2025]; [F6S, retrieved 2026]
Ubiquitous Energy	Transparent solar coating that integrates power generation into building surfaces.	Venture-backed; $30M Series B in 2022.	Technology is a coating, not a cleaning solution.	[Crunchbase, 2022]
Physee	Building-integrated photovoltaic windows with smart coatings.	Venture-backed; €2.2M seed in 2017.	Focus on architectural glass and building facades.	[Crunchbase, 2017]
Brite Solar	Nanotechnology coatings for agricultural greenhouse glass.	Early-stage; grant and venture funding.	Targets controlled environment agriculture.	[Crunchbase]

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Competitor profiles are confirmed via Crunchbase, but differentiation analysis against Clear Solar is inferred from public positioning.

Opportunity

Clear Solar Corporation aims to become the standard retrofit for operational solar farms in arid and dusty regions. The company’s wedge is a retrofit kit, avoiding the need for panel manufacturers to redesign their products, and its licensing of a NASA-patented electrodynamic dust shield (EDS) provides a technical foundation [F6S, retrieved 2026].

Scenario	What happens	Catalyst	Why it's plausible
Utility-Scale Beachhead	Clear Solar secures paid pilots with 3-5 independent power producers (IPPs) operating in the US Southwest.	Successful closure of the founder’s targeted $500,000 friends-and-family/grant round.	The founder’s near-term goal is to install on five one-megawatt farms by Q4 2027.
O&M Partnership Landslide	A major solar operations & maintenance (O&M) firm white-labels or exclusively partners with Clear Solar.	A successful 12-month pilot demonstrating energy yield improvement and reduction in manual cleaning costs.	The solar O&M market is consolidating around large service providers seeking margin-improving technology.
Regulatory & Water-Crisis Acceleration	Water scarcity regulations restrict or increase the cost of water-based panel cleaning.	A municipal or state government imposes new restrictions on industrial water use.	The company’s market sizing highlights the massive water usage of current cleaning methods.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Core opportunity framing relies on company-provided problem statements and founder interviews; growth scenarios are extrapolated from stated milestones.

Sources

1. [Carnegie Mellon VentureBridge, 2025] Founder Spotlight with Michael Provenzano of Clear Solar (VB '25) | https://www.cmu.edu/swartz-center-for-entrepreneurship/education-and-resources/venturebridge/venturebridge-2025-spotlight-clear-solar.html
2. [ClearSolarCo, retrieved 2026] Home | https://clearsolarco.com/
3. [F6S, retrieved 2026] Clear Solar Corporation profile | https://www.f6s.com/company/clear-solar-corporation
4. [Business Insider, 2010] Meet the 24-Year-Old Who Just Sold a $70 Million Company to Google | https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-25-year-old-who-just-sold-a-70-million-company-to-google-2010-6
5. [Robotics Factory, retrieved 2026] Robotics Factory | https://www.linkedin.com/company/robotics-factory
6. [Crunchbase, 2022] Ubiquitous Energy Funding | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ubiquitous-energy
7. [Crunchbase, 2017] Physee Funding | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/physee
8. [Crunchbase] Brite Solar profile | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/brite-solar