On the other hand, from the aspect of renewable and clean energy, one of the most important applications of solar cells is their use as photovoltaic materials integrated into buildings (building integrated photovoltaics, BIPVs). Using BIPVs, buildings are transformed from consumers into energy producers, with the ultimate goal of building an energy efficient building that would produce electricity using solar cells integrated into the building envelope (roof, facade, skylights, sunshades, canopies, domes, etc.). A group of researchers from the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research is developing new BIPVs materials, which are used in the upgrade of light and decorative building elements, such as plasticized aluminum sunshades.