Urban furniture
Flexible light-weight PV composites will be demonstrated, integrated in urban furniture. These solutions designed in Increase will be compared with typical integrated PV glass/glass panels counting on identical power output. Different shapes and designs will be included, where local students of architecture, artists, and citizens will be engaged to propose diverse designs. The same cell technology and configuration will be used, to provide insight in performance, robustness, and acceptance.
The pilot will count on 2 street lights (one composite, one glass/glass), two canopies of 1 kWp, one based in composite the other based in glass, 5 pcs per canopy), two mobile charging tables (one based in each technology, (5 pcs based in composites and 5 pcs based in glass/glass)), and finally 5 m2 of PV walkable floor.
Walkway and bike parking
The pilot will be co-created with the park-manager, the city, engaged citizens, the architect, and the engineering company. Variations in colour, glare, lightweight, and modules with easier separation of materials are foreseen.
The sanitary block is designed to have 10 panels, total of 3.6 kWp.
The bike parking will have a variation of non-transparent (6 pieces, 4.05 kWp) and semi-transparent panels (18 pieces, 12.6 kWp). The panel dimensions will be variable to achieve between 2.4 m2 and 4.5 m2 of integrated PV panel sizes.
The walkway (55 m2, 6.5kWp) will consist of prefabricated tiles with integrated PV.
New office building
A 6-story office building to be built is part of a 50 000 m2 project in a dense urban area in Echirolles, South Grenoble. It concerns a building as part of a mixed district with offices, shops, a hotel, a student residence, housing, a medical-educational institute.
The building will be connected to a district heating system. In this demonstration, 150 m2 prefabricated curtain wall panels with integrated anti-glare PV will be installed.
Greenhouse attached to school building
The greenhouse will be located close to the south façade. Students, and staff will be invited to co-create the integration of PV in the greenhouse. The pilot counts on a significant educational value being integrated in a school as a showcase.
The ambition is to integrate 150 m2 pilot of semi-transparent PV glass based on new colour encapsulants (15kWp).
Public parking garage
The public parking garage was built in 2007 with a total surface area of 3000 m2 and 97 parking spaces, over 4 floors. Podgorica has several of such parking garages within the city centre.
The ambition of this pilot is to allow local stakeholders to co-create the upgrade of the parking garage by a new finishing on the outside, built up with up to 100m2 coloured PV using various innovative colouring techniques.
Administration building of Capital
The building (1965) is 1251 m2 in surface area and has 3 floors. The outer walls are approximately 45 cm thick, without thermal insulation.
In 2000, the heating system was replaced by a heat pump (heating and cooling). In summer, its capacity of the heat pump is insufficient. The economic-environmental assessment will be used to optimise the insulation thickness and identify the optimal amount of PV.
A ventilated façade (foreseen to be 250 m2 for the purpose of the demonstration) will be co-designed with the architects, citizen, and city administration, and will include low glare modules, modules with improved fire safety, (and possible combinations of these characteristics for specific modules).
Residential building
A first prototype of the SuS tyle has been installed in November 2020 with fully equipped monitoring in place.
During the Increase project, the roof (140m2, 20 kWp) will be re-used to demonstrate and further finetune the de-icing foil and control (current tiles will be removed and re-used).
Single-family residential building
The family house (1990) will receive an energy upgrade to a NZEB. The house is today heated by gas, and hot water made with a heat pump. The energy improvement will be to change from gas to heat pump.
The 200 m2 tiles will be replaced by the developed lightweight insulated solar elements. The house consumption today 25000 kWh will be monitored before and after the renovation.
Self-consumption is increased with an 8 kWh home battery and applying the Increase smart control. Different grid exchange strategies will be set-up, and in the absence of market signals they will be emulated.
Noise barriers for railway
The acoustic barrier will be 50m length and 2,5m height (125 m2). BECS will provide the full noise barrier, integrating asymmetrically composed laminated PV modules to optimize acoustic insulation, and integrating absorbent material in the source side, as designed in terms of shapes and compositions, to optimize acoustic absorption.
Acoustic performance, and energy generation will be closely monitored on site.