Energy and economic evaluation of building-integrated photovoltaics

M. Oliver and Thomas Jackson ()

Energy, 2001, vol. 26, issue 4, 431-439

Abstract: This paper applies energy analysis and economic analysis in order to assess the application of solar photovoltaics (PVs) in buildings. Comparison is made both to electricity supply from centralised PV plants and to conventional electricity sources. The comparison with conventional sources reveals that there is currently a significant trade-off between the environmental and economic implications of PVs: there are substantial resource benefits to be gained from using PVs to supply electricity, but the economic cost of doing so is significantly higher than conventional sources. This trade-off is reduced when the benefits of building integrated PVs (BiPVs) are considered. By comparison with centralised PV plants, BiPV systems offer the “double dividend” of reduced economic costs and improved environmental performance. This double dividend is increased if the economic and energy costs of avoided cladding materials are taken into account.

Date: 2001
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (34)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544201000093
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:26:y:2001:i:4:p:431-439

DOI: 10.1016/S0360-5442(01)00009-3

Access Statistics for this article

Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser

More articles in Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().