Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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So you merely want the daylighting? You're not interested in calculating the PV production? Typically PV windows do not change their visible transmittance and spatial distribution, so why do you even need three phase, unless you want to model the effect of an interior blind or shade? As for the net transmittance, allowing for non-uniform spacing of the "pv batteries", you could just model the pv as opaque objects directly in front of the glass polygon, I'd guess. With an accurate model of the glass, you could just do "single phase" (what I call it) or "two phase" (what everyone else calls it), where you calculate one matrix: the contribution of the sky patches directly from the sky to the interior point(s).
