ECONOMICS COMPARISON OF BUILDING INTEGRATED PV IN DIFFERENT POLICY ENVIRONMENTS: THE CASES OF NEW YORK AND BEIJING
U.S. and China are the worlds two biggest CO2 emitters. Solar PV technology could be an alternative that meets energy needs while reducing environmental impacts in both rural and urban settings. This paper presents a comparative study of building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) application on typical commercial buildings in New York City and Beijing. These two cities have similar solar resource. The analysis focuses on financial, economic and policy issues of BIPV system. Rooftop and curtain wall applications are considered. The analysis is conducted by PV Planner, a software developed at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) in cooperation with the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory to provide simulation and financial analysis of BIPV under different resources, policy and financial circumstances and for a variety of technology configurations. The analysis results in different economic values of the investment in U.S. and China. We believe that the policy environments related to grid-connected BIPV are mainly responsible for such a difference. The paper finally discusses the policies related to BIPV development and recommends how China can make the BIPV more economically appealing and spur its large application in leading cities.
John Byrne Xilin Zhang Aiming Zhou
Center for Energy and Environmental Policy University of Delaware Newark, DE 19711, USA
国际会议
2007世界太阳能大会(Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress 2007)
北京
英文
2007-09-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）