A REVIEW OF PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION

One of the most inexhaustible and the cleanest renewable energy resources is the solar energy. Photovoltaic (PV) technology is one of the finest ways for using the solar power. In the recent years, the world`s development of PV technology is growing very fast because of the technological development and government support for renewable energy. Photovoltaic is playing an important role to utilize solar energy for electricity production worldwide. The efficiency of solar cells is one of the important facts in PV technologies. This paper represents the review of the photovoltaic technology based upon the silicon solar cells. Also, the paper reviews the non-silicon photovoltaic technology, based upon Cadmium telluride (CdTe) and Cadmium sulphide (CdS), Copper indium gallium selenide/copper indium selenide (CIGS/CIS), Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) and some new photovoltaic technology for PV cell production - Nanotechnology or ‘‘third- generation PV’’. Very important perspective of thin film PV technology is flexible modules, and this study will show that there is great perspective for development thin film building integrated PV products

ZERO-NET ENERGY BUILDINGS FROM ASPECT OF PV USAGE

There is a growing interest in zero-net energy buildings (ZNEBs) in recent years. From 31 December 2020, all new buildings will be nearly zero-net energy consumption buildings (ZNEBs), according to the recast of the European Directive 2010/31/EU. Photovoltaic (PV) has many potentialities in a ZNEB scenario, thanks to its features. The perspective of use of PV enlarges from the architectural scale to a wider scale, including the space close to the building or even to the urban and landscape scale. The authors of this paper consider new possibilities and perspectives for the use of PV in ZNEBs, and also opportunities for investigating the relationship between PV and ZNEBs. One of possibilities is Landscape Integrated Photovoltaics (LIPV) as the next area for the PV investigation from the design point of view. It is obvious, by looking at the ZNEB as an artificial landscape that the traditional forms for buildings and cities will completely change in future