Integrating PV in building skin today requires an accurate performance assessment in accordance with construction norms and PV standards...

To optimize the production of solar panels, one of the most investigated aspect is the relation between solar yield with orientation...

Shading reduces PV efficiency and could cause safety issues triggered by different levels of current in the solar cells. In case of partial shading...

The paradigm of sustainability and the increasing demand of nearly zero energy and plus energy buildings are rapidly transforming building skin...

The BIPV market in Europe is in a transition. The past decades of a slowly emerging BIPV market have been characterized by the original...

Quite often there is a tendency to avoid the use of photovoltaics because it is believed that it costs significantly more than traditional building...

On 5 July 2019, the sustainability institute applied to the built environment of SUPSI, with the support from the Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)...

Why hasn’t more building-integrated PV (BIPV) been installed throughout the world? The simplest answer is that a PV module does not architecture...