Electricity production and cooling energy savings from installation of a building-integrated photovoltaic roof on an office building

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 210-220

  Ban Weiss, George ^a   Wray, Craig ^a   Delp, Woody ^a   Ly, Peter ^b   Akbari, Hashem ^c   Levinson, Ronnen ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Building energy; Building heat transfer; Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV); Photovoltaic; Reflective roof; White roof

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY; BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAIC; COOLING ENERGY; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; HEATING ENERGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES; PV ENERGY; ROOF DECKS; SOLAR ABSORPTANCE; UPPER SURFACE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

ROOFS;

EID: 84870720606     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.06.032     Document Type: Article

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