Equitable performance comparison and economic evaluation of active and passive solar energy systems

M.S. Drew and R.B.G. Selvage

Energy, 1980, vol. 5, issue 5, 407-415

Abstract: An evaluation of active and passive solar energy systems is made which assigns to both systems an equal energy demand. Active systems with baseline energy requirements equivalent to those of passive systems are identified by making a careful accounting of what passive solar energy properly belongs in the building load. This analysis allows an equitable economic comparison between the two alternative design solutions to the problem of maximizing life cycle savings for a system which supplies heat to a structure with specified floor area and heating load per unit floor area.

Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(80)90016-X

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