Climate Change Mitigation Potentials of Vertical Building Integrated Photovoltaic.

Buildings caused approximately 19% of the energy related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2013 [1]. One option to reduce these emissions are Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics (BIPV) [1]. Therefore, this paper investigates the potential exceptionally of vertical BIPV within the different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) [2]. Therefore, a carbon budget for the electrical energy consumption of the EU building stock is assumed, to compare these with the cumulated emissions of the electrical energy consumption of the EU building stock within the different SSPs. This is done with and without the massive use of BIPV. The cumulated emissions are calculated for all EU countries and different BIPV cell types. These types are multi- (mult-Si) and mono-crystalline Silicon solar cells (mono-Si) as well as Thin-Film Photovoltaic (TFPV) like Copper Indium Gallium Selenide solar cells (CIGS), amorphous Silicon solar cells (a-Si) and Cadmium Telluride solar cells (CdTe). The solar irradiation is determined and life-cycle emissions of the different BIPV are taken from papers [3], [4], [5]. Besides, the data of the current EU building stock are taken from different sources [6], [7], [8] and are forecasted for the electrical energy system with the SSP scenarios [2], [9] and for the building stock with the scenario developed by ENTRANZE [10]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]