Identification of Factors Influencing Development of Photovoltaic (PV) Implementation in Singapore

Despite the steady growth of grid-connected installed capacity in Singapore last decade and intensive government effort towards “solarization”, implementation photovoltaics (PV) especially building-integrated (BIPV) into built environment has not gathered as much momentum would have been expected given country’s ample solar energy resource potential, strong economic fundamentals robust real estate sector. Based on a conducted web-survey qualitative interviews among local professionals, this paper examines obstacles, potentials drivers that could facilitate accelerate BIPV PV façade integration, well needs encourage wider use. In order to define unified strategy, aligning stakeholders’ views, following disputable factors are pointed out discussed: (1) incomplete understanding building-applied (BAPV) stakeholders, (2) costs systems, (3) low awareness confidence “integrability” modules, (4) knowledge about insufficiently investigated performance (5) potential roof integration. Since key identified factor for implementation, life-cycle cost (LCC) assessments integrations performed, which supported search solutions problems. The performed analysis findings present basis development long-term holistic strategy help highly-urbanized, tropical resource- land-constrained island city-state reduce dependency fossil fuels achieve climate change targets, thus promoting more sustainable environment.