Solar Energy, Vol.188, 875-882, 2019
Optimization of a BIPV system to mitigate greenhouse gas and indoor environment
The solar architecture is defined as a kind of building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) which the Photovoltaic (PV) modules are deployed to passive solar concepts, to minimize the heating & cooling load, to upgrade the indoor environmental quality and to be adjustable for regional weather and to continuously succeed architectural culture and history. The most ideal form of a BIPV is a multi-functional and ecological convergence through a passive concept application of a photovoltaic module for a building. The solar architecture needs to consider the architectural culture and history of the region through an ecological convergence which is applicable to a passive concept if the environment, energy and comfort problems will be effectively mitigated. The evaluation standard is needed to fulfill these requirements of solar architecture. The renewable energy sources are getting very hot issues, due to the environmental pollution, global warming, and energy shortage, etc. It is reasonable to disseminate the representative energy systems which could be ecologically convergent with the regional architecture. Most renewable energy systems including PV could not be activate or not be environmentally friendly if the systems are planned simply without multi-functional and ecological convergence. This paper describes the ecological criteria to optimize solar architecture through an ecological convergence of a passive solar architecture and photovoltaic system.