Featured in Northern hot spot – 11-2010

A marriage of beauty and function

BIPV: A growing number of PV manufacturers are offering modules designed to blend into roofs and building facades in North America. Competition will be particularly fierce for the precious real estate on the residential rooftops.

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pv magazine

18 Nov 2010

The idea of solar modules that can blend into buildings like chameleons promises to unlock new installation spaces, inspire eco-friendly architectural designs and create a new market for solar electric equipment manufacturers. The idea has been around for decades, but the building-integrated PV (BIPV) market remains tiny even today primarily because of technology, pricing and …

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