Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV)

Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV): Review, Potentials, Barriers and Myths

To date, none of the predictions that have been made about the emerging BIPV industry have really hit the target. The anticipated boom has so far stalled and despite developing and promoting a number of excellent systems and products, many producers around the world have been forced to quit on purely economic grounds. The authors believe that after this painful cleansing of the market, a massiv...

Environmental payback time analysis of a roof-mounted building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) system in Hong Kong

0306-2619/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.06.011 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +852 3400 3596; fax: E-mail address: [email protected] (L. Lu). This paper reports the investigation results of the energy payback time (EPBT) and greenhouse-gas payback time (GPBT) of a rooftop BIPV system (grid-connected) in Hong Kong to measure its sustainability. The 22 kWp PV...

Dc Building Network and Storage for Bipv Integration

Electricity loads in buildings are increasingly supplied by distributed renewable generation sources such as photovoltaic (PV) modules or fuel cells. Often these systems are combined with an electricity storage to raise the level of self-consumption in buildings and to reduce the load on the electric grid. PV production and battery storage are both inherently based on direct current (DC) power....

Towards Application of Selectively Transparent and Conducting Photonic Crystal in Silicon-based BIPV and Micromorph Photovoltaics

Performance evaluation towards improved BiPV-Systems – Simulation of BiPV-systems installed on existing building facades using TRNSYS

The main focus of this work was the simulation and optimization of a BIPV-façade-system configuration through the development of simulations using the software ”TRNSYS”. First, several limitations and constraints within the TRNSYS framework needed to be solved to develop a reliable simulation environment. Various parameters were detected which are influencing the temperature distribution over a...