Day 2, Session Block A
08:30 New Design Possibilities for Solar Façades: Colored and Customized, yet Cost Effective
Chair: Francesco Frontini, Swiss BIPV Competence Center, Cannobio, Switzerland
Current Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) technologies
- BIPV products available on the market
- Evaluation of innovative BIPV products
- BIPV technology selected for the EU project SmartFlex Solar Façades
Francesco Frontini, Swiss BIPV Competence Center, Cannobio, Switzerland
New design flexibility for BIPV façades
- New possibilities in BIPV design
- Chances and challenges
- EU project SmartFlex Solar Façades: customized design, industrially produced
Tomas Lenkimas, Glassbel, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Electricity production with colored BIPV modules
- Characterization of colored BIPV modules for solar façades
- Impact of colored modules with camouflage technology on energy production
- Monitoring the results of the BIPV project SmartFlex Solar Façades
Thomas Weber, Photovoltaic Institute Berlin, Germany
Cost effectiveness of customized BIPV elements
- PV products compared to common building envelope products
- PV system installation: additional costs versus savings
- Plug and Play solution proposed by the EU project SmartFlex Solar Façades
Juras Ulbikas, Applied Research Institute for Prospective Technologies, Vilnius, Lithuania
10:00 Coffee Break