Global Seminar | Data-driven urban science for Photovoltaics in Cities
27 May | FCL Global resesarchers will analyse and present a data-driven model to examine the impact of urban design decisions on solar energy provision in real-time.
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Data-driven urban science for Photovoltaics in Cities
The integration of solar electricity generation via Photovoltaic (PV) systems into cities plays a major role in the transformation towards a future sustainable energy landscape. While the technology itself is market-ready and PVs on rooftop surfaces prove to be environmentally and economically beneficial, their adoption for building facades as building integrated PV (BIPV) remains challenging, due to their intermittent nature, stochastic energy provision, and effects of shading on vertical surfaces by adjacent buildings or vegetation. Sector coupling (including electric mobility and vehicle-2-grid concepts, V2G), load diversification and micro-grids, and maximizing on-site self-consumption of PV electricity can improve the marginal benefits of BIPV systems significantly.
In this talk, we present methods that support urban photovoltaics by utilizing largescale urban data and offering stochastic scenario analyses necessary to draw robust decisions in BIPV planning. The first half of the talk discusses the use of mobile phone data to estimate the city-wide charging potential for V2G systems, and its comparison to district household electricity consumption and PV solar generation potential. The second half of the talk presents a data-driven solar model based on deep generative methods to produce stochastic time series on arbitrary building facades with the capability of morphing the urban context.
Presenters
- Markus Schläpfer
NTU Singapore & University of Bern, Switzerland
- Christoph Waibel
Architecture and Building Systems (A/S), ETHZ
Module Coordinator, Powering the City, FCL Global
Seminar Details (in-person)
Date: Friday, 27 May
Time: 4–5pm (SGT)
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