Barriers in the PV sectors

This report focuses on the identification of the barriers that prevent or discourage the integration of PV in the building sector. At the beginning of the study, a draft document describing Legal & Administrative Barriers, Market Barriers, Technical Barriers and Perception Barriers has been developed by WIP and AIE. The document has been circulated among the Sunrise partners in order to identify other possible barriers. FIEC contacted different representatives of the CEBC (European Consortium of Building Control) in order to obtain the experience in various European countries in using BIPV and in particular potential barriers and dis-incentives likely to arise as a consequence of town and country planning consents as well as technical regulations applicable to installers of BIPV. The barriers identified during this survey carried out by FIEC were in line with those mentioned in the draft document. All the Sunrise partners provided feedback on the draft document. Based on the information gathered during the fe dback assessment, the barriers have been set out in the chapters 3