The Effect of Climate on the Solar Radiation Components on Building Skins and Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) Materials

The business model of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is developing expeditiously and BIPV will soon be recognised as a building envelope material for the entire skins, among other alternatives such brick, wood, stone, metals, etc. This paper investigates effect climate on solar radiation components skins materials in northern hemisphere. selected cities are Stavanger Norway, Bern Switzerland, Rome Italy, Dubai UAE. study showed that all studied climates, average incident slightly more than east or west facades, regardless orientations facades. Furthermore, correlation between different technologies discussed this paper. It also found when it comes to efficiency cells, impact some (such DSC OSC) much significant others c-Si, mc-Si CIGS). evidence from suggests climates with higher diffuse radiation-or overcast days per year-the contribution IR decreases. Therefore, their spectral responses dependent (like Si CIGS) would drop down meaningfully. On hand, OSC cells could good option cloudy since they have stable performance, even climate. Although, compared Si-based still significantly less thus far.