{"id":137700,"date":"2022-04-04T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/rooftop-pv-to-reduce-cooling-demand-of-uninsulated-buildings"},"modified":"2022-04-04T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:04:13","slug":"rooftop-pv-to-reduce-cooling-demand-of-uninsulated-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/rooftop-pv-to-reduce-cooling-demand-of-uninsulated-buildings","title":{"rendered":"Rooftop PV to reduce cooling demand of uninsulated buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rooftop-pv-to-reduce-cooling-demand-of-uninsulated-buildings3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research project took place during the heating period spanning November 2021 to April 2021 and the cooling period from May 2021 to October 2021. The PV system was designed to cover 4.9% of the roof surface area. The total installed power of the building was 480 kW.<\/p>\n<p>Through their simulation, the scientists found that the shade effect of PV panels may reduce the building\u2019s cooling demand by 10.87%, which means a lower power consumption of 136.6 kWh for the cooling months. \u201cConversely, PV panels increased the heating load in the winter by 3.8%, which means that the rise in heating loads in heating months was 175.3%,\u201d they also explained. \u201cA rooftop PV system provides a greater understanding of the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) energy demand variance in buildings which is critical in modern architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research project took place during the heating period spanning November 2021 to April 2021 and the cooling period from May 2021 to October 2021. The PV system was designed to cover 4.9% of the roof surface area. The total installed power of the building was 480 kW. Through their simulation, the scientists found that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}