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Integrated Photovoltaic System Sizing and Economic Evaluation Using RETScreen™ for a Building of 40 Apartments

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The growth of PV market had a remarkable rate over the last 10 years even with difficult world economy scenarios and it is getting to be a great source of power generation for the world [1]. After a record increase in 2011, the global PV markets got stabilize in 2012, to grow again in 2013 [2].

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    Andrés Julián Aristizábal Cardona, Carlos Arturo Páez Chica & Daniel Hernán Ospina Barragán

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Aristizábal Cardona, A.J., Páez Chica, C.A., Ospina Barragán, D.H. (2018). Integrated Photovoltaic System Sizing and Economic Evaluation Using RETScreen™ for a Building of 40 Apartments. In: Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Systems (BIPVS). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71931-3_4

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