BIPV offers both the PV industry and the building products industry a way out
of their current economic plights. For PV firms, BIPV provides a product
strategy geared to adding value to products. For the building products
industry, BIPV represents a new line of products that will enable construction
firms to add saleable features to buildings of all kinds.
While all this is true of all BIPV products, there is a natural migration path
from today's rooftop PV panels to BIPV roofing. With this in mind,
NanoMarkets is publishing this report, which identifies and quantifies the
market opportunities for BIPV roofing.
The report discusses a roadmap for BIPV roofing in which business revenues are
generated initially by simple overlay products and then by conventional rigid
and flexible BIPV roofing products and finally from fully integrated products.
The report also shows how the performance of BIPV roofing is expected to
evolve with a special focus on lifetime requirements and the materials that
will be used both for substrates and absorber layers.
This report also includes extensive forecasts of the BIPV roofing market in
terms of wattage, area covered and revenues generated. Breakouts are provided
by type of building, type of BIPV roofing and key materials used. In
addition, we project the nations and regions that will generate the most
revenues for BIPV roofing and the breakouts of the BIPV roofing market by
retrofit and new construction. As usual with NanoMarkets reports, this report
also includes a detailed assessment of the strategies of the leading firms
currently supplying BIPV roofing products.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
E.1 BIPV Roofing as a Way Out of the PV Industry Slump
E.1.1 The Business Case for BIPV Roofing and the Future of Chinese
Competition
E.2 Prospects and Opportunities for BIPV Roofing Products
E.2.1 BIPV Roofing Overlays
E.2.2 Today's Leading-Edge (Flexible and Rigid) BIPV Products
E.3 Technology Driven Competition in the BIPV Roofing Market: An
Opportunity for Start-Ups and VCs?
E.4 The Fragmented Nature of the BIPV Roofing Market and Its Implications
E.4.1 Does BIPV Roofing Need New Distribution Channels?
E.4.2 Picking BIPV Roofing Markets by Size
E.5 Firms to Watch in the BIPV Roofing Space
E.6 Summary of Eight-Year Forecasts of the BIPV Roofing Industry
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background to this Report
1.1.1 NanoMarkets' Expectations for Future Trends in BIPV Roofing
1.1.2 Technical Challenges to BIPV Roofing Technology
1.1.3 BIPV Roofing and the PV Industry "Crisis"
1.2 Goal and Scope of this Report
1.2.1 Definitions of BIPV Roofing
1.2.2 Forecasts and Strategies
1.3 Methodology of this Report
1.4 Plan of this Report
Chapter Two: BIPV Roofing Technology and Products: Current and Future