Integrated appraisal of a Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) System

Geoffrey Hammond; Hassan Harajli; C I Jones; Adrian Winnett

doi:10.1109/SUPERGEN.2009.5348173

Integrated appraisal of a Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) System

Geoffrey Hammond, Hassan Harajli, C I Jones, Adrian Winnett

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Energy analysis, environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and economic analysis have been utilised to study the performance of a domestic building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) system on a 'whole systems basis. The energy analysis determined that the system paid back its embodied energy in just 4.5 years. Environmental LCA revealed that over the lifetime of the BIPV system the impacts from production were offset by the electricity generated (the avoided impacts) to provide a net environmental benefit. The financial analysis considered the householder's perspective, in contrast to the cost-benefit analysis, which considered a societal perspective. The results of both indicated that under current market conditions the system failed to pay back its initial investment over the 25 year lifetime. However it was predicted that with sustained market growth BIPV could become economically viable by the year 2019. If realised BIPV would offer an attractive option to assist the UK's anticipated (mandatory) zero carbon homes by the year 2016.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2009 International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1166-1174
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9781424449347
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SUPERGEN.2009.5348173
Publication status	Published - 4 Dec 2009
Event	First International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply (SUPERGEN) - Nanjing, China Duration: 6 Apr 2009 → 7 Apr 2009

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Conference	First International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply (SUPERGEN)
Country/Territory	China
City	Nanjing
Period	6/04/09 → 7/04/09

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Hammond, G, Harajli, H, Jones, CI & Winnett, A 2009, Integrated appraisal of a Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) System. in 2009 International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply. IEEE, New York, pp. 1166-1174, First International Conference on Sustainable Power Generation and Supply (SUPERGEN), Nanjing, China, 6/04/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/SUPERGEN.2009.5348173

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