Global Building-Integrated Photovoltaics Technologies

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Global Building-Integrated Photovoltaics
Technologies
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INTRODUCTION
Buildings today are a leading global consumer of
energy, with this trend likely to continue well
into the future, primarily driven by economic and
population growth. This trend is increasingly
recognized by a multitude of countries worldwide.

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Federal, state and local governments perceive
investing in green energy technologies for new
and existing buildings as an opportunity to
achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Consequently, energy efficiency in buildings
has evolved into a major factor of the green
movement in recent years, with these factors
driving the increased importance of energy
efficiency in buildings as a whole.
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BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS
Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) are
defined in this report as photovoltaic materials
that replace conventional building materials in
components of the building envelope, such as the
roof, skylights or facades. They serve as a
class of solar products in which the PV component
both converts light to electricity and also
replace a building component.
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Major building envelope components include
cladding (i.e., the weather skin), skylights,
roof tiles, curtain walls, windows, asphalt
roofing, and louvers, among others. Progress is
being made in the proliferation and integration
of photovoltaics (PVs) into building external
components. This market segment remains a vast
arena largely untapped as a source of solar
electricity.
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STUDY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
The primary objective of this report is to
characterize and quantify significant global BIPV
markets the legislative, regulatory, political
and economic forces driving those markets
identify present and emerging technologies,
suppliers, and market strategies and quantify
the markets for BIPV technologies on global and
regional levels.
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This report identifies and substantiates the
reasoning for uses of particular PV technologies
in specific BIPV market segments. The
investigation covers crystalline (c-Si) and
poly- and multi- crystalline silicon (mc-si),
amorphous silicon (a-Si), cadmium telluride
(CdTe), CIGS, organic dye-sensitized titanium
oxide PV materials (dye solar cell DSSC) and
plastic (or organic) solar cells (OPV).
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INFORMATION SOURCES
The study employed both primary and secondary
research methodologies to acquire data and
generate the rigorous analysis required for it.
Primary sources for information included
analysis of data from interviews with industry
executives, subject matter experts, producers and
users of BIPV technologies, advanced materials
and devices vendors related to PV technologies,
banking executives,
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venture capitalists, building owners,
architects, engineers, managers, economists,
consultants, marketing groups, governmental and
non-governmental organizations, related
technology associations, professional and
manufacturing associations, academic research
organizations,
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PV project installation company representatives,
scientists working on new PV technologies,
government officials (federal elected officials
and local permitting and local planning board
managers) and regulatory agencies. Secondary
sources also include trade conference proceedings
and presentations, trade publications for the PV
industry and various building construction,
equipment rental, and commercial and residential
project development industrial sectors.
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SCOPE OF THE REPORT
The various BIPV niche markets are examined in
terms of type of exterior building component
class, PV technology offerings, geographic
region, generating capacity and revenue to the
manufacturer (i.e., market value).
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