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Reducing the Effects of Climate Change Using Building-Integrated and Building-Applied Photovoltaics in the Power Supply
This book looks at the success and continuing potential of photovoltaic (PV) technology in combating climate change by harnessing solar energy...
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Advancements and Applications of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) in China
Power generation in buildings plays an important role in promoting carbon neutrality in the building sector. Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV)...
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A Path Towards Net-Zero Emission Using Building Integrated Photovoltaic: A Review
The exponential growth in population and urbanisation is causing an increase in the number of high-rise and mid-rise buildings. The increased strain...
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Building-Attached and Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Systems in Austria
Photovoltaic (PV) systems attached to or integrated in buildings are seen as a very important renewable energy source for electricity generation up...
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Photovoltaics and the Built Environment in Brazil
In Brazil, hydroelectricity has been the major and lowest-cost electricity source and currently accounts for ~62% of the electric-power market. With...
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Floating photovoltaics may reduce the risk of hydro-dominated energy development in Africa
Floating photovoltaics (FPV) is fast becoming cost-competitive, but its social and environmental impacts are under debate. Meanwhile, develo**...
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Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) and Its Application, Design, and Policy and Strategies
This chapter presents a system description of building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) and its application, design, and policy and strategies. The...
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Policies and Trends to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts by Integrating Solar Photovoltaics in Buildings and Cities: Emphasis on Egypt’s Experience
Decarbonization is considered one of the immediate actions to reach climate neutrality by 2050. Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) or...
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Building Integrated Photovoltaic–Thermal System (BIPVT) Performance Under the Tropical Climate Conditions
Rapid urbanization and population growth, as well as the tropical climate with uniform temperatures, frequent precipitation, and randomly varying...
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Environmental Impact Associated with the Performance of Building Integrated Photovoltaics: Life-Cycle Assessment Perspective
Solar power can be used as a clean and sustainable source of energy that can in turn be applied in many ways, including to buildings; solar power...
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Sustainable solar power from wall mounted photovoltaics
The plausibility of wall-mounting of photovoltaics in inaccessible or restricted rooftops to generate power necessitated this study. Meeting energy...
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Building-Integrated Photo-Voltaic Systems
Solar energy has been traditionally an energy source for buildings. Today sustainability concerns, the finiteness of fossil fuels and improved cost...
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Compound Parabolic Concentrator Design: Assessment of Performance Enhancement for Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Systems
Improvement of state-of-the-art sustainable energy technology is required to accelerate the essential global transition away from fossil fuel energy...
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Challenges and opportunities for the mechanical reliability of metal halide perovskites and photovoltaics
The unproven reliability of perovskite photovoltaics (PVs) is likely to pose an important technical hurdle in the path towards the widespread...
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Techno-economic assessment of photovoltaics by predicting daily global solar radiations using hybrid ANN-PSO model
Photovoltaics is one of the most important renewable energy sources widely used. One of the important factors required in its modeling is information...
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An assessment of reducing energy consumption for optimizing building design in various climatic conditions
Buildings account for a significant amount of total energy consumption worldwide; and the use of fossil fuels in the short and long term will have...
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First-Generation Photovoltaics: History and Conventional Manufacturing
The conversion of solar energy into electricity has been sought since the 1800s. The augmentation of the once electrochemical system as a solid state...
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Built Integrated Photovoltaic Application (BIPV): The Dutch Situation
Power grid-connected buildings with their PV panels, BIPV (built integrated photovoltaic applications) offer opportunities for RES integration. The...
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Using Building Integrated Photovoltaic Thermal (BIPV/T) Systems to Achieve Net Zero Goal: Current Trends and Future Perspectives
The rising world population and increasing shift toward reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have highlighted the importance of cleaner and...
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Photovoltaics in agricultural landscapes: “Industrial land use” or a “real compromise” between renewable energy and biodiversity? Perspectives of German nature conservation associations
BackgroundOne common renewable energy source for substituting fossil sources is photovoltaic (PV) systems. However, installing PV systems in...
