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Building Integrated PV

Building integrated PV is the shortened name for building integrated photovoltaics: photovoltaic equipment that forms part of the roof or wall of a building, planned together with the building surface it shares.

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Metal roof covered with a photovoltaic panel array, seen from above
Roof photovoltaic array, shown as a general illustration of a roof photovoltaic application, not as a single panel product.

What building-integrated photovoltaics means

Building-integrated photovoltaics means photovoltaic equipment that forms part of the building itself, rather than equipment added on top of a finished roof or wall. The photovoltaic surface and the building surface are planned as one system, so the roof or wall design and the energy equipment design move together.

This site describes building-integrated photovoltaics at system level only. Power ratings and energy output figures are not published here; please confirm any energy requirement in your inquiry, and treat it as a point to be confirmed rather than a published claim.

Photovoltaics integrated into the wall

Photovoltaic equipment can also be integrated into a wall, where the wall surface carries both the envelope function and the energy function. As with the roof, the wall build-up, the junctions and the maintenance route have to be planned together from the start.

Wall photovoltaic inquiries should describe the wall areas, the wall orientation and the openings separately from the roof areas. A wall that carries photovoltaic equipment is not a standard wall, and it should not be briefed as one.

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