TY - JOUR
T1 - Implementing an open-source tool for modelling solar PV potential in dense urban areas
AU - Erell, Evyatar
AU - Dorman, Michael
AU - Alexandroff, Vladimir
AU - Kloog, Itai
N1 - Funding Information:
The study was funded by the Israel Ministry of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources of Israel under research grant no. 021-11-215.
Publisher Copyright:
© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2019/11/20
Y1 - 2019/11/20
N2 - Distributed PV has the potential for generating a significant proportion of many cities' electricity needs. However, the number of installations in dense urban locations is still negligible. Unlike detached single-family homes in low-density neighbourhoods, where installation is relatively straight-forward and solar access is generally unobstructed, dense urban areas pose special challenges. The paper demonstrates application of a free, open-source tool to assess how building configurations affect insolation and hence PV installation potential on building envelopes (roofs and facades) in complex, irregular urban environments. A sensitivity analysis using generic building types in regular plans highlights differences in the PV potential of contrasting building typologies providing a similar number of dwellings for a prototypical 300x300m urban block with a population density equivalent to 25,000 persons/km2.
AB - Distributed PV has the potential for generating a significant proportion of many cities' electricity needs. However, the number of installations in dense urban locations is still negligible. Unlike detached single-family homes in low-density neighbourhoods, where installation is relatively straight-forward and solar access is generally unobstructed, dense urban areas pose special challenges. The paper demonstrates application of a free, open-source tool to assess how building configurations affect insolation and hence PV installation potential on building envelopes (roofs and facades) in complex, irregular urban environments. A sensitivity analysis using generic building types in regular plans highlights differences in the PV potential of contrasting building typologies providing a similar number of dwellings for a prototypical 300x300m urban block with a population density equivalent to 25,000 persons/km2.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012092
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012092
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85076260797
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 1343
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012092
T2 - International Conference on Climate Resilient Cities - Energy Efficiency and Renewables in the Digital Era 2019, CISBAT 2019
Y2 - 4 September 2019 through 6 September 2019
ER -