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# Software toolsBuilding Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) optimisation tool
The “BIPV optimization tool” suggests the optimal configuration of a PV system to be integrated in a building or group of buildings, meaning optimal PV capacity, modules’ position and electric storage system size.
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Building Integrated Photovoltaics
Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) can contribute to accelerate the global energy transition, producing electricity from renewable energy sources directly in the buildings. BIPV modules can substitute roof, façade, shading components, etc., thus considering it with the early stages of the buildings’ design can be relevant. Eurac Research developed a tool to support architects and other designers in this task.
Development
The BIPV optimisation tool has been developed by Eurac Research experts in the framework of the EU H2020 funding projects EnergyMatching, 4RinEU and Cultural-E. This tool helps to identify the optimal BIPV configuration, i.e., how many PV modules and where to integrate them over the building envelope (on roofs, façades, shading devices, balustrades, etc.)
- configurations are optimised according to the specificities of the cases
- possibility to assign different target functions to the tool to achieve energy, economic and/or environment-related goals
- calculation of the hourly matching between PV production and consumption
- possibility to enlarge the evaluation scale to districts, considering energy sharing between buildings
- set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) provided
Features
Licence
A simplified version of the BIPV optimisation tool is available on the online EnergyMatching Platform. You need to log in in order to use the tool, please refer to the contacts below for the access
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