Advances in building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems for residential and commercial purposes are set to minimize overall energy requirements associated greenhouse gas emissions. The BIPV design considerations entail infrastructure, pertinent renewable sources, efficiency provisions. In this work, the performance of roof/façade-based affecting parameters on cooling/heating loads buildings...

Microinverters for Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) systems must have had a small number of components, be efficient, and reliable. In this context, single-phase Buck-Boost Single-stage Microinverter (BBSM) grid-connected BIPV is presented. The concept topology extracted from the buck-boost converter. leakage current in system kept under control. It uses an optimal active passive compone...

In the Canadian north, cost of space heating is very high due to harsh weather, its remoteness, lack transportation, and dependency on fossil fuel imported from South. Since North has an abundance solar energy, significant energy savings with some added construction in houses could be achieved by applying high-performance building envelopes design strategies. The objective this paper investigat...

One might at first believe that knowledge of the photovoltaic effect is recent. In fact, we must go back to 1839 with the French physicist Edmund Becquerel who first discovered the photovoltaic effect. It was during the period between the second half of the 19th and the Second World War (1945) that scientific knowledge related to solar phenomena were mastered. Thus, in 1875, Werner von Siemens ...

in this paper, the performance evaluation of a two-way hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (pv/t) solar collector was analytically and experimentally carried out. mathematical expressions for operating parameters in glass to glass and glass to tedlar pv/t solar collectors were developed and experimentally validated by a glass to tedlar pv/t solar collector system. also the influence of air flow rate on...

in this paper, we investigated the necessity and effects of optimal control methods in the stability and performance of a micro-grid that operates in islanded mode. the micro-gird is consisted of a combine heat and power (chp), a capacitor bank (cb), photovoltaic panel (pv) as power generation sources. in addition, battery and the building electricity and thermal load are placed on the load sid...