Energy saving, in commercial building by improving photovoltaic cell efficiency

Renewable energy, also known as green power is becoming the key solution to tackle the energy crisis and the Carbon Dioxide Emission (CO
_2e
). In addition, renewable energies plays a significant role in removing CO2 (negative emission). The consequences are decreasing the impact of global greenhouse emissions. However, the renewable energy has its own difficulties and challenges. Currently, there are numbers of renewable energy sources practically proven, but the most commercially ones are; hydro, wind and Photovoltaic (PV). The basic PV cell efficiencies are significantly low ranging from 5 to 20%. Current literature review of PV cell efficiencies are showing that, numbers of practical attempts are able to improve the efficiency of PV cells up to a maximum of 42% in cold climate and 8% in hot climate using intelligent mechatronic system method. However, this type of method is found to be quite expensive to implement, as it adds significant amount of costs to the manufacturer's prices. This research project is to develop alternative method to ease the process of increasing the PV cell efficiencies and also to reduce the extra costs. In this method, PV cells are designed and modelled using simulation software applications, Auto-desk Revit and Dynamo (script programing language) and results are analyzed to satisfy the target of PV cell efficiencies.