Research Article
Experiment and Simulation Study on the Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Walls
Table 3
Comparison of the annual building heating and cooling energy consumption between different models.
| Energy |
Nonventilated PV wall model |
Ventilated PV wall model |
Normal wall model | Heating | Cooling | Heating | Cooling | Heating | Cooling |
| Electricity (kWh/m2) | 0 | 333.57 | 0 | 327.54 | 0 | 326.09 | Natural gas (MJ/m2) | 35.65 | 0 | 43.04 | 0 | 51.30 | 0 |
| Total (MJ/m2) | 1236.52 | 1222.17 | 1225.21 |
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