Featured in Step on the gas – 12-2012

Solar building envelopes

BIPV: Bisem completed a BIPV curtain wall retrofit installation for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Instead of manufacturing expensive custom-made PV panels the company developed a system that allows the use of mass-produced PV modules.

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pv magazine

03 Dec 2012

Last August, U.S.-based building-integrated PV (BIPV) company Bisem Inc. announced that it had completed the first BIPV curtain wall retrofit in the United States with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the electricity provider of Sacramento County, California. The 392 square foot wall at SMUD’s LEED Platinum-certified customer service center will provide 100% of the …

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