A method for predicting the economic potential of (building-integrated) photovoltaics in urban areas based on hourly Radiance simulations

Solar Energy

Volumn 116, Issue , 2015, Pages 357-370

  Fath, Karoline ^a,b   Stengel, Julian ^a   Sprenger, Wendelin ^b   Wilson, Helen Rose ^b   Schultmann, Frank ^a   Kuhn, Tilmann E ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D city model; Photovoltaics; Radiance; Technical and economic potential

Indexed keywords

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; ROOFS;

3D CITY MODELING; BUILDING INTEGRATION; ECONOMIC POTENTIALS; MATERIAL SUBSTITUTIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATION; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RADIANCE; RENEWABLE ENERGY POTENTIALS;

BUILDINGS;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY RESOURCE; INSTALLATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RADIANCE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; ROOF; SIMULATION; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84928682825     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2015.03.023     Document Type: Article

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