Status and Outlook for Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) in Relation to Educational needs in the BIPV Sector

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...

Standards development for BIPV

Grid connected PV is being applied in a variety of applications including large centralised stations, commercial buildings and individual houses. Photovoltaic power systems are unique in their characteristics and in their mode of application to buildings. This paper addresses the need for specific Standards to address distinctive new issues created by grid connected PV power systems. Internatio...

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....

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...

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