Solar Incentives
Advantages of Building Integrated Photovoltaics
- Solar power gives you a return on your investment, while paying your utility for electricity gives you 0% return.
- Solar energy is renewable unlike the conventional resources.
- Solar panels can last over thirty years.
- Installing a solar system demonstrates corporate leadership.
- Using solar power offsets global warming gasses.
- Solar energy produces clean, green power in the form of electricity and can be used to power just about everything we need.
- Solar power can replace power produced by coal, oil and nuclear power plants.
Building Integrated Photovoltaics
Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV)
Solar Integrated Roofing Systems
Hard Panel Solar Systems
Incorporating building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) into commercial, industrial and institutional facilities can significantly improve energy efficiency and reduce a building's impact on the environment. Today, numerous "green" solutions are available for achieving on-site distributed power generation based on the unique features and needs of each facility. As a leading solar installer, Pfister Energy can help you determine which type of solar technology to incorporate into your building's architecture.
Photovoltaic Technologies
Building integrated photovoltaics are setting new standards in design and efficiency, offering numerous possibilities in solar architecture. These solar installations are completely customizable, attractive and easily integrated into a building's architecture. Photovoltaic technologies that are commonly used in parts of the building envelope include – solar panels, skylights, solar thermal panels and awnings, solar modules and wind turbines. The advantage of BIPV is that the initial cost of solar installation can be offset by reducing the amount spent on building materials and labor that would normally be used to construct the building.
Environmental Impact
Sustainable energy practices are increasingly being implemented when constructing new buildings, and also being applied onto existing buildings as a principal or ancillary source of electrical power. Not only do these practices have significant long-term financial benefits, they also put less strain on the grid and less strain on the environment. Committing to applying the latest technologies in BIPV systems and on-site distributed generation is the first step in understanding the successes and challenges to advancing renewable energy integration in our nation's building stock.
