Projects

Planning what remains to be installed means knowing what stands today. DOLMEN extends the rooftop photovoltaic detection pipeline built in the laboratory. Aerial imagery, convolutional neural networks, validation against distribution grid operator records, open release of the results.

The project funds the doctoral work of Mohamed Ennhiri. The datasets and tools are published openly. You will find them on the Tools and data page.

Task 63 of the International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Programme brought together experts from ten countries. The Task supports developers, property owners, architects, urban planners and municipalities in designing solar neighbourhoods. The goal is long-term access to sunlight, for energy production and for daylight in buildings and outdoor spaces.

I led Subtask C with Jouri Kanters. We surveyed the solar planning tools practitioners use in practice. We identified where their workflows break down. We set out what the next generation of tools needs to do. I also co-led Subtask D.

The Task produced public reports, a review of interactive solar cadaster platforms, and a framework for engaging stakeholders and citizens.

Greater Geneva forms a single functional territory split by a national border. Coordinated solar planning becomes difficult there, and valuable. G2 Solar developed a solar cadastre covering the building stock of the agglomeration, façades included.

The work spanned the whole chain. A radiative model validated numerically against reference simulations. A large-scale multicriteria assessment of which buildings suit photovoltaic integration. An analysis of how a cadastre feeds solar governance across a transborder agglomeration.

Local authorities and a series of follow-on studies still use the resulting datasets and methods.