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The solar map as a knowledge base for solar energy use

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Summary, in English

Our existing urban environment has a significant potential to increase the use of renewable energy, mainly by using solar irradiation for heat and electricity. Quantification of the solar potential by means of a solar map is the first step in the acceleration process for using more solar energy in our urban environments. A solar map is a GIS system providing the annual solar irradiation on building surfaces, mostly accompanied by information of the output of solar thermal or photovoltaic systems. Many solar maps are already in place today; almost all of them are however using different approaches. In this paper, an analysis is done of current solar maps in order to see on which principles the solar maps were based upon.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

1164-1606

Publication/Series

Energy Procedia, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry (SHC 2013)

Volume

48

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Building Technologies

Keywords

  • Solar maps
  • solar cadastre
  • cities
  • tool
  • urban planning
  • solar resource assessment

Conference name

2nd International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry, 2013

Conference date

2013-09-23 - 2013-09-25

Conference place

Freiburg., Germany

Status

Published

Project

  • IEA SHC Task 51: Solar Energy in Urban Planning

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1876-6102