This doctoral thesis identifies and examines factors that determine the adoption of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the built environment in general, and of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) in particular. Accordingly, it contributes to promoting the widespread diffusion of these technologies...

The benefits of smoothing demand peaks in the electricity market has been widely recognised. European countries such Spain and some of the Scandinavian countries have recently given to the consumers the possibility to face the spot prices instead of having a fixed tariffs determined by...