Building opportunities in the US for PV (PV:bonus) a progress report

Author

Taylor, Roger W.

Author_Institution

Nat. Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

5-9 Dec 1994

Firstpage

781

Abstract

Five contract teams are developing photovoltaic (PV) products that will have a significant impact on building-integrated PV systems. The product lines that these teams are pursuing include roofing materials, building facade materials, PV integrated into modular homes, AC-PV modules, and utility-dispatchable PV systems. The objective of these efforts is to develop product and market opportunities that can provide for the introduction of PV into the buildings market sector at higher allowable installed systems costs than conventional ground- or roof-mounted systems. Each of the teams has a unique approach, and synergistic opportunities among teams are beginning to emerge. This paper reviews the product and market development efforts of these teams and describes the links between the product efforts and parallel analytical work to develop PV as a demand-side management option

Keywords

building; demand side management; photovoltaic power systems; AC-PV modules; PV:bonus; USA; building facade materials; building-integrated PV systems; demand-side management option; market opportunities; modular homes; product opportunities; roofing materials; utility-dispatchable PV systems; Buildings; Contracts; Costs; Laboratories; Market opportunities; Photovoltaic systems; Power generation economics; Renewable energy resources; Solar power generation; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 1994., Conference Record of the Twenty Fourth. IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 1994, 1994 IEEE First World Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1460-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCPEC.1994.520076

Filename

520076