Project description
Breaking barriers to mass integration of photovoltaics into buildings and infrastructure
Meeting European climate targets demands a dramatic surge in renewable energy adoption. While photovoltaic (PV) costs have dropped, integrated PV (IPV) remains a niche market due to persistent barriers. In this context, the EU-funded MASS-IPV project brings together key players to demonstrate how innovative tools and technologies can pave the way for the mass integration of cost-effective IPV systems into buildings and infrastructure. Specifically, the project will showcase the potential of multifunctional and cost-effective IPV systems through five different construction projects. The initiative represents a crucial step towards achieving a dramatic rise in renewable energy implementation, bringing us closer to our climate protection goals.
Objective
A dramatic rise in the implementation of renewable energy sources is needed if we want to meet European climate protection targets. Photovoltaic (PV) costs have decreased spectacularly over time, turning photovoltaics into one of the most competitive sources of electricity in the EU. An economically feasible and space-saving approach to increase the capacity of renewable energy sources is to integrate PV systems into structures that already exist or to build new structures that originally integrate a PV function.
Building-integrated and infrastructure-integrated PV are technologically proven solutions. Due to its multifunctionality, building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) installations can achieve a better economic and ecological balance over their lifetime than conventional building elements. New technologies for PV cells, electrical connections, and front and back covers allow a free choice of formats and colours for integrated PV modules.
Likewise, infrastructure-integrated PV offers a large potential for PV integration, due to the unique advantages of somewhat standardized constructions, little emphasis on aesthetics and a small number of builders and owners compared to the building sector.
However, integrated PV (IPV) is still a niche market. Several barriers are still preventing the massive integration of PV into buildings and infrastructure.
The project MASS-IPV has been conceived as a multidisciplinary action that connects key players along the PV and construction value chains. The goal of the project is to demonstrate that suitable tools, technologies, and methods, combined with a collaboration framework among key stakeholders, can overcome the barriers preventing the mass deployment of IPV and deliver multifunctional and cost-effective IPV systems for buildings and infrastructure. Six different built objects will be used to demonstrate the technology, representing different construction typologies in five different locations in Europe.
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80686 Munchen
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5145 PW Waalwijk
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20014 San Sebastian
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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48170 ZAMUDIO
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7491 Trondheim
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41122 Modena
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0194 OSLO
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10117 Berlin
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1251 AV Laren
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09200 Miranda de Ebro
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20809 AIA GIPUZKOA
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5145 PW Waalwijk
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31450 Donneville
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35127 Padova
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3065 Lemesos
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33011 Oviedo
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6928 Manno
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6928 Manno
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6716 Acquarossa
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