BIPV products overview for solar building skin (subtopic 6.3 / Building, infrastructure and landscape applications)

In this paper, the authors report on a jointly conducted analysis of the current status of the BIPV market by giving a comprehensive overview on the available products, the current trends of technological innovation, the application ranges and a survey on the price levels. For this purpose a market survey was conducted among the various stakeholders in the BIPV sector, including manufacturers, installers and BIPV product suppliers. The survey focused on different application areas: roof and facade systems including both crystalline and thin film technologies. The market survey was conducted for the European market, with emphasis on The Netherlands and Switzerland. The most frequent products investigated were PV tiles and full roof solution (mainly for residential roofs). Although crystalline silicon technology was most commonly used, thin film technologies gained considerable share as well as facade systems. The data from the price survey showed that BIPV systems for the building skin can be executed at very similar costs than projects involving conventional building products.