PV in buildings for Malaysia: prototype solar house

Author

Erge, Thomas ; Haw, Lim Chin

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Solar Energy Syst., Freiburg, Germany

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

18-18 May 2003

Firstpage

2358

Abstract

Most PV installations in Malaysia so far are standalone systems. Grid-connected PV started with some test installations recently. The "prototype solar house" located near Kuala Lumpur was built in 2002 as part of an Industry Research and Development Grant Scheme (IGS) project. It is unique, since in a typical residential house 3 different grid-connected roof installation with different PV generators (poly-, mono-, a-Si; standard mounting, integration, roof tiles) have been built with emphasis also on architecture and thermal aspects. An innovative monitoring system allows assessing all relevant operating parameters for the PV systems. The installations run very reliable with high efficiency, but some grid specific aspects have been found relevant for proper functioning of grid-connected PV systems in Malaysia.

Keywords

amorphous semiconductors; building integrated photovoltaics; elemental semiconductors; prototypes; research and development; silicon; Malaysia; PV generators; Si; grid connected photovoltaic system; industry research and development grant scheme; monitoring system; prototype solar house; roof installation; thermal properties;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2003. Proceedings of 3rd World Conference on

Conference_Location

Osaka, Japan

Print_ISBN

4-9901816-0-3

Type

conf

Filename

1305063