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Solar Performance Metrics in Urban Planning: A Review and Taxonomy

Metrics are instrumental in design assessments. Solar performance metrics help designers to evaluate solar access in cities. Metrics should be used early in the urban planning stages in order to enable sustainable urban development with greater access to solar energy. Currently, solar assessments at this design stage are limited in practice; established methods or routines are lacking, and so are suitable metrics. This paper reviews the relevant literature to provide a critical overview of solar metrics commonly used in building performance assessments. The review defines key metric formulation principles—valuation, time constraint, and normalisation—which should be considered when designing a performance indicator. A new taxonomy of solar performance metrics is provided. Metric definitions, suitability, and limitations are discussed. The findings highlight the need for reliable, low-complexity metrics and adequate methods for early solar assessments for urban planning.

» Author: Agnieszka Czachura

» Reference: doi: 10.3390/buildings12040393

» Publication Date: 23/03/2022

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