BUILDING INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS (BIPV) IN ROMANIA

The paper is based on a research national project (under development) focused on the promotion of new architectural concepts which include active solar systems (PV generators) and passive solar systems (lighting systems). The advantages of using the distributed solar architecture are more remarkable in the case of large network-connected P V systems, such as the P V systems in the urban area, installed on building's facades or roofs. The major purpose of the project is to demonstrate the efficiency of integrating various PV elements in buildings, to test them and to make them known so that they can be used on a large scale. To demonstrate this purpose, the new products will be installed on three pilot buildings (two in Bucharest and one in Timisoara) and the PV modules will be integrated in consonance with their architecture. One of them will be a historical building and the other two will be new buildings; they will have different typologies and they will be located in different areas. The estimated installed power for each building will be of approximately 1.000 Wp, including some technologies with P V modules integrated in the architecture of the buildings.