Development and implementation of innovative and production enhancing photovoltaic installations for commercial buildings in northern Sweden

Large low-angled roofs offer an attractive area for photovoltaic installations.

To efficiently utilize these roofs also at high latitudes, the project will design and test new solar plant designs in real conditions.

These new designs have the potential to significantly increase the electricity production by reducing snow shading compared to conventional low-angled plants. In a previous project, wind loads and electricity production were simulated for five different innovative concepts.

In this project we intend to develop numerical methods for computing the load distributions and strengths of mounting solutions that correspond to the concepts, and test these in a lab setting before implementing the most promising concepts in real test installations.

By detailed follow-up and comparison with conventional plant designs, the project will lead to conclusions about the most efficient and suitable photovoltaic plant designs on large low-angled roofs in snow-rich regions.