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Green Smart Buildings for Smart Cities
Published in Pradeep Tomar, Gurjit Kaur, Green and Smart Technologies for Smart Cities, 2019
Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Gurjit Kaur
Designs utilizing passive solar heating have numerous benefits: one of the most important is the absence of noise from furnaces and radiators when the passive solar heating process is used. Besides improvements and modernization in solar panels, various new technologies allow solar power to be stored in solar panels. A large area of commercial and residential buildings offer creative solar solutions by utilizing these solar-embedded products. Some of these products are: Solar windows: these windows look like ordinary windows, and as sunlight passes through, energy is generated by the phenomenon of quantum dot coating in the glass. These represent an exciting technology that emerged on a bigger scale in 2018.Solar shingles: this integrates innovative solar technology into modern roof shingles. One company, Tesla, offers owners a way to incorporate solar energy creation to their roofs without any noticeable change in the previous roof with their textured, smooth, French slate glass tiles. Solar shingle tiles are more robust and provide better insulation than ordinary roofing materials.
Outline of solar energy in India: advancements, policies, barriers, socio-economic aspects and impacts of COVID on solar industries
Published in International Journal of Ambient Energy, 2022
Solar shingles are a solar energy solution in which solar panels look like traditional roofing materials while producing electricity. One significant advantage of solar shingles is that they do away with the need for a ribbon to connect cells, much like roof tiles, improving module aesthetics. Third, unlike a conventional cell, shingle module cells feature busbars on opposite ends and are divided into numerous strips, decreasing current and, as a result, the finger load.