Feasibility study on solar energy of a structure concept for commercial purposes

Half of the world’s population lives in the cities that accounts for the biggest share of energy consumption, CO2 emissions and environmental impact. In order to understand the new urban challenges we need to cooperate and advance sustainable, and interdisciplinary technological solutions that fight these problems and will have benefit as clean energy generators. The Solar Energy, Photovoltaic System, designed for, rather not utilitarian structure form, has been studied for the location of Milano area, inspired from the work that was presented at the LAGI 2014 (Denmark), an Initiative that advance the installation of sustainable design solutions, throughout renewable energy concept integration. The previous version, conceptually the same, gave the idea for the new concept deployment, emphasizing the potential capacity of solar power technology and urban sustainability. The study results for the 669 kWp Solar power system, with disposition on the tilted roof have allowed tracing the, monocrystalline cells technology energy generation for commercial sector. Totally 21 areas, accounting for seven-plane orientation and three tilt angles were studied, and the energy production per m2 variations are present after being simulated through the PVsyst software, mainly for sizing and data analysis of the PV system. The photovoltaic-structure installation with estimated CO2 emission savings and payback period of 10 years result in system sustainability and on-site load cover. It is strongly believed that the decentralized PV system installations have a great potential in the upcoming years and, with this study it is intended to strike the existing energy landscape with revolutionary solar technologies accompanied with building entities that are self-sustainable.