Featured in European Solar's new dawn – 06-2021

Custom standardization: unlocking BIPV

The creativity of architects and the need to standardize BIPV products to bring costs down may appear mutually exclusive. In reality, they are the concurrent needs of both the construction and solar sectors and must be considered for the promise of “PV everywhere” to become a reality in our built environment. Work is underway to bridge this gap and the initial results are building in innovation.
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 On brand and on message: A new building at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Berlin is being powered by a 50 kWp solar facade installation that speaks to its mission and identity. Not only is the prominent solar research group practicing what it preaches by adopting the building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) technology for which it advocates, but …

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