Maximize Sun. Minimize Dust.

We're revolutionizing solar panel cleaning with electrostatic robotics.

Clear Solar replaces water and costly robots with a space-grade, self-cleaning film — keeping every panel at peak output, autonomously.

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Founded 2025 · Hurley, NY · Backed by Techstars

Where we operate

  • Cleantech
  • Climate tech
  • Manufacturing
  • Robotics & Drones
  • Space tech
The problem

Dust is quietly eating solar's promise.

Soiling is the largest recoverable loss in solar — and today's fixes are expensive, water-hungry, and unsustainable.

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Upfront cost of today's robotic cleaning systems — plus $10,000/yr to maintain.

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Annual drop in solar energy yield from mineral dust in arid regions.

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Gallons of water used per year to clean a single 1 GW solar farm.

The solution · ClearAdvantage

It's like a force field for your solar panels.

A transparent, laser-etched electrode film paired with proprietary power electronics generates a travelling wave of phased voltage pulses that electrostatically charges, lifts, and transports dust straight off the panel — built for the solar farms baking in the world's deserts and arid regions. Waterless. Space-grade. Fully autonomous.

  • Form factor Retrofit kit — adhesive electrode film + power-electronics module that bonds onto existing panels, on site.
  • Heritage Built on NASA's Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS), licensed via NASA Technology Transfer — proven on the Moon in 2025.
  • Economics Targets cleaning up to 1,000× cheaper and 100× more often than robotic wash systems.
  • Footprint Runs on a sliver of the panel's own output. Zero water, zero chemicals, zero moving cleaning crews.

  1. 1 · Dust settles

    Mineral particles accumulate on the panel surface, silently cutting output every day.

  2. 2 · Pulses fire

    Phased voltage pulses ripple across the etched film, charging and lifting each particle.

  3. 3 · Panel stays clean

    Dust is transported clear off the edge — no water, no scrubbing, no downtime.

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Eliminates soiling losses

Panels hold peak output year-round, recovering energy that dust would otherwise steal.

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Slashes maintenance cost

No six-figure robots, no service crews — cleaning happens autonomously, in place.

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Zero water

A completely waterless process, ideal for the arid regions where solar thrives.

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Protects ecosystems

No runoff, no chemicals, no strain on scarce local water — sustainable by design.

Technology · Space heritage

Born from lunar mission engineering.

ClearAdvantage is built on Electro-Dynamic Screening (EDS) — the same principle developed to keep dust off equipment on the Moon, where there is no water and failure is not an option.

  • 4 years of direct EDS engineering experience.
  • Space-grade durability, adapted for terrestrial solar farms.
  • Waterless & autonomous — engineered for the harshest, driest environments on Earth.
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0× Target cleaning cost reduction vs robotic wash systems
0× More frequent cleaning — autonomous, on demand
0% Annual yield at risk from soiling in arid regions
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Team

A space-born team, bringing lunar tech down to Earth.

Clear Solar was founded in 2025 by operators who built robotics for the Moon — then realized the same physics could rescue terrestrial solar from dust.

  • Michael Provenzano

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Previously built lunar-surface robotics at Astrobotic, growing a venture from a single founder into a 60-person team and winning NASA & DoD grants along the way. MBA, Carnegie Mellon (Tepper).

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  • Nathan Dummer

    Co-Founder

    Space-robotics engineer with hands-on experience from Astrobotic's lunar programs, now adapting electrodynamic dust control for the harsh, dusty conditions of terrestrial solar farms.

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  • Micaela McCandless Pieper

    Co-Founder

    Co-founder helping take Clear Solar's NASA-derived self-cleaning technology from the lab into commercial solar deployments.

Backed by

Verifiable credibility, not just claims.

A NASA technology license at the core, and a place in three of the country's leading deep-tech accelerator programs.

  • Techstars Techstars Columbus · Fall 2025
  • AlphaLab AlphaLab Robotics Factory · 2026
  • VentureBridge — CMU Swartz Center CMU VentureBridge · 2025
  • NASA Technology Transfer EDS technology license
Careers

Build your career with space-born innovation.

We're a small, senior team — 50+ years of combined experience and a $90M+ space robotics portfolio behind us. Come help us bring lunar-grade technology down to Earth.

Open role

Software Intern

Work shoulder-to-shoulder with our engineers on the firmware and control systems that power ClearAdvantage.

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Ready to keep every panel at peak?

Let's talk about putting ClearAdvantage to work on your solar assets.

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