AFRODITE: Advanced facade and roof elements key to large scale building integration of photovolatic energy

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 01.0565

Key words (English)

Environmental Protection; Energy Saving; Renewable Sources of Energy; Social Aspects

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: ENK5-2000-00345

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.4b.1 Cleaner energy systems, including renewables

Short description (English)

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Abstract (English)

Building integration is the way towards large-scale application of PV within Europe. As aesthetics are key to extensive implementation of PV in buildings, special building elements will be required featuring complex geometrical shapes, improved visual appeal, transparency e.g. This project aims at the realization of a diversity of electricity generating construction elements of different shapes at competitive cost in order to address the building market. Successful implementation of the project should allow opening market segments until know reluctant to introduction of PV mainly because of non-technical reasons. There will be an advanced generic cell and interconnection technology developed to realise cost effective production of a variety of custom designed PV elements at competitive and comparable cost. Efforts will be made towards increased awareness of the FV integration opportunities towards the European building society.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
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CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 01.0565