{"id":66120,"date":"2020-12-12T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T11:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/?p=66120"},"modified":"2020-12-12T12:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T11:25:28","slug":"study-shows-solar-facades-and-solar-roofs-are-now-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/energy\/study-shows-solar-facades-and-solar-roofs-are-now-profitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Study shows: Solar facades and solar roofs are now profitable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The additional costs for a solar building envelope compared to conventional construction methods amount to 30 to 50 per cent of the costs for the facade and roof. However, the electricity yield leads to a higher return on investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roof and facade integration of a solar system rises the construction costs of the building envelope. But the additional costs are manageable and range between 30 and 50 per cent of the total costs for a facade or the roof, depending on the application. This is the result of a study conducted by the Swiss Planning Office for Solar Fa\u00e7ades CR Energie on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (BFE) and Energy Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this purpose, five reference buildings were examined to determine the additional costs of integrating photovoltaics compared to a conventional building envelope. The total investment costs were considered. Thus, not only the costs for the mounting and the facade material itself, which are incurred anyway, were included, but also a possibly higher price for the solar modules compared to the passive facade material as well as the additional costs caused by the photovoltaics. These range from the cabling and power electronics to the connection of the systems to the grid and the building electronics. \u201eDesign aspects, on the other hand, do not lead to additional investment that can be attributed to photovoltaics,\u201c explains Christian Renken, Managing Director of CR Energie, when presenting the results at this year\u2019s Symposium Solar Construction, which was organized by Swissolar<\/a> and the Austrian Technology Platform Photovoltaics (TPPV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIPV more expensive, but\u2026<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

An analysis of the integration of monocrystalline modules into the roof of an apartment building found that the total cost of BIPV is 990 Swiss francs per square meter. An alternative covering with fibre cement slate would have cost 586 Swiss francs per square meter. Thus, the additional costs for BIPV are 41 per cent. At 45 per cent, the additional costs for a facade built with monocrystalline glass-glass in comparison to a conventional glass facade are similarly high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if customized coloured solar modules are used in the facade, the additional costs for photovoltaics remain well below 50 per cent compared to a fibre cement slate facade. In the new building examined here, the additional costs for the custom-made modules were even lower at 42 per cent than for a facade with standard modules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The efficiency can be improved<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

At first this sounds a lot. But CR Energie has evaluated the economic efficiency. This is not only made up of the investment costs but must also include the yield from the solar facade. This economic efficiency depends, among other things, on the consumption of solar power on site. The higher this is, the more the operating costs for the building decrease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n