• Jalaj Shah
• Viranchi Shah

Facade Engineering is the art of resolving aesthetic, environmental and structural issues to achieve the enclosure of habitable space. Today lightness and transparency are properties that both architects and clients try to obtain. This has rapidly increased the use of glass in facades. Renewable energy sources like solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy etc. are the alternatives of the non-renewable sources. India is blessed with abundant sunshine & solar energy is getting the importance it deserves in recent times. High-rise buildings in urban areas which are major consumers of energy need to be utilised as sites for Solar PV. Though roof-top Solar PV has been getting due attention, facades of high-rise buildings also offer a great opportunity for Solar PV. This review paper aims to review the potential for savings & reduction in GHG emissions using Solar PV Facades in high-rise buildings. Saving in land resource is also an advantage in using Solar PV for Facades. As electrical output of Solar PV Facade can be consumed in the high-rise building itself, it is a form of distributed generation with captive consumption avoiding transmission infrastructure & losses.

Solar energy, BIPV, Photovoltaic

"A Review of Building Integrated Photovoltaic system and its scope of application in developing countries like India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.77-81, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006322.pdf

"A Review of Building Integrated Photovoltaic system and its scope of application in developing countries like India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp77-81, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006322.pdf