Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) products and systems: A review of energy-related behavior

Martín-Chivelet, Nuria; Kapsis, Konstantinos; Wilson, Helen Rose; Delisle, Véronique; Yang, Rebecca; Olivier, Lorenzo; Polo, Jesús; Eisenlohr, Johannes; Roy, Benjamin; Maturi, Laura; Otnes, Gaute; Dallapiccola, Mattia; Wijeratne, W.M. Pabasara Upalakshi

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.111998

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“…The assessment metrics outlined show a concern for energy performance and also economic and design -related aspects of the systems. Similarly, a recent review on BIPV as a technological innovation suggests that the various aspects of energy-related behavior which characterize BIPV modules impacts how it is integrated in buildings [43]. However, the authors agree with other aforementioned studies that this warrants a need for further research into the standardization but also argued for the crucial aspect of technological acceptance.…”

Section: Bipv Adoption Studies and Trends Around The Worldmentioning

confidence: 65%

Mandatory Policy, Innovations and the Renewable Energy Debate: A Case Study on Building Integrated Photovoltaics

2022

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Innovations in buildings help to reduce energy consumption and promote environmental protection and as well as the use of renewable energy technology. However, there is a conflict when the need for an innovation clashes with the financial burden and the complex adoption processes. As a result, the negative impacts of buildings remain, and the low adoption of strategic innovations remains unaddressed. This study aims to explore this challenge, the various sides of this debate and provide a practical guide which promotes energy and building-related innovations driven by policy. This paper is an extract from a recent doctoral study conducted using an exploratory qualitative model and interviews with eighty-six residents in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) was selected as a case study energy innovation and the thematic analysis of the data collected suggests that BIPV adoption is limited by multiple barriers. The debate arising from the findings highlights two opposing viewpoints. One view claims that mandatory policies are necessary to promote innovation adoption. The other view argues that the merits of mandatory policy are lost since multiple barriers significantly discourage adoption in the first place. The study takes a proactive step towards resolving the debate using a systematic approach that recommends specific drivers backed by supporting policies to guide human-centered, stakeholder-driven renewable energy transition.

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Section: Bipv Adoption Studies and Trends Around The Worldmentioning

confidence: 65%

Mandatory Policy, Innovations and the Renewable Energy Debate: A Case Study on Building Integrated Photovoltaics

2022

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“…Solar photovoltaics are the most common technologies in NZEBs [24], which are often installed on the rooftop and sometimes on facades in high-rise buildings. To produce renewable energy and meet architectural requirements, professionals and researchers proposed building-integrated photovoltaic modules or systems to optimise a building's energy-saving performance [25]. Other renewable energy, such as wind, is occasionally applied.…”

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confidence: 99%

Technology Innovation for Sustainability in the Building Construction Industry: An Analysis of Patents from the Yangtze River Delta, China

Wang

Zhang

2022

Buildings

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Advances in technology provides the potential to innovate sustainability in the building construction industry. Drawing on the literature and expert reviews, this research discloses the potential of 14 specific technologies in waste minimisation, energy saving, and efficiency improvement for sustainable building construction and develops a conceptual framework engaging the building life cycle (the planning, construction, use and operation, and demolition phases) and the actors for assessing technological innovation at a local level. This framework is used to identify how technologies were innovated for sustainable building construction through the selected 3017 patent invention applications from the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), one of the fastest urbanising areas and the largest market for the building industry in China. Findings unveiled that innovation is uneven amongst the 14 technologies and the degree of mixing was relatively low in the YRD. The contribution of the technological innovation to sustainability is mainly actualised through efficiency improvements in building construction (2265) and through directly reducing waste (1094) and energy consumption (642). Some general-purpose technologies (e.g., blockchain, cloud computing), which assume to fundamentally innovate the industry, are mostly absent with less than 10 records each, leaving the potential for future adaptive technological innovation. Furthermore, state-owned enterprises as the main sources of patent inventions amongst applicants in the YRD may suggest the dissimilar path of China towards technology innovation compared to its Anglo-American counterparts.

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“…Improving building energy efficiency is a major global problem. Numerous work has been conducted in order to minimize building energy consumption and to improve their energy use with particular emphasis on controls and operation [2], renewable energy integration [3], and energy prediction [4], [5]. Modelling is the foundation for developing such building technologies, which can help with architectural design, HVAC design and operation, appliance scheduling and data generation.…”

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Modelling Building Energy Systems using Electric Circuit Analogy

Shabani

Dhamo

Zavalani

2023

EJECE

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Modelling energy systems is of great interest since it can help to analyse building energy behaviour and to optimize control strategies. Grey-box modelling is one of the three fundamental modelling approaches for developing energy models. Due to its simplicity and offering several benefits, it has been widely used to handle building-technology challenges such as building load estimate, control and optimization, synthetic data generation for prediction, load peak management and grid integration. This review research looked at several areas of grey box modelling for building energy systems. Here we analyse three main directions, first one is modelling thermal dynamics of buildings, second one analysing approach used to model most used building electrical appliances and third one is renewable systems used to produce thermal water for residential use.

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Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) products and systems: A review of energy-related behavior

Cited by 115 publications

References 78 publications

Mandatory Policy, Innovations and the Renewable Energy Debate: A Case Study on Building Integrated Photovoltaics

Mandatory Policy, Innovations and the Renewable Energy Debate: A Case Study on Building Integrated Photovoltaics

Technology Innovation for Sustainability in the Building Construction Industry: An Analysis of Patents from the Yangtze River Delta, China

Modelling Building Energy Systems using Electric Circuit Analogy

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