Current status of agrivoltaic systems and their benefits to energy, food, environment, economy, and society

Kumpanalaisatit, Manoch; Setthapun, Worajit; Sintuya, Hathaithip; Pattiya, Adisak; Jansri, Surachai

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2022.08.013

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“…Agrivoltaic systems leverage a single plot of land for dual purposes by integrating crop (e.g., [34]) or livestock production (e.g., [5,6]) with solar PV energy generation [99]. They can simultaneously increase land use efficiency [33] and the economic value of farms [32,38,69], while providing rural employment opportunities [61,86]. Agrivoltaic applications are wide ranging and vary across geographic context, having been originally deployed with plant-based agriculture such as wheat [33], corn and maize [4,93], aloe vera [88], grapes [67], and lettuce [68].…”

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Do agrivoltaics improve public support for solar? A survey on perceptions, preferences, and priorities

Pascaris

Schelly

Rouleau

et al. 2022

GRN TECH RES SUSTAIN

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Agrivoltaic systems integrate agricultural production with solar photovoltaic electricity generation. Given the proven technical, economic, and environmental co-benefits provided by agrivoltaic systems, increased proliferation is anticipated, which necessitates accounting for the nuances of community resistance to solar development on farmland and identifying pathways for mitigation. Minimizing siting conflict and addressing agricultural communities’ concerns will be key in continued deployment of agrivoltaics, as localized acceptance of solar is a critical determinant of project success. This survey study assessed if public support for solar development increases when energy and agricultural production are combined in an agrivoltaic system. Results show that 81.8% of respondents would be more likely to support solar development in their community if it integrated agricultural production. This increase in support for solar given the agrivoltaic approach highlights a development strategy that can improve local social acceptance and the deployment rate of solar. Survey respondents prefer agrivoltaic projects that a) are designed to provide economic opportunities for farmers and the local community b) are not located on public property c) do not threaten local interests and d) ensure fair distribution of economic benefits. Proactively identifying what the public perceives as opportunities and concerns related to agrivoltaic development can help improve the design, business model, and siting of systems in the U.S.

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Do agrivoltaics improve public support for solar? A survey on perceptions, preferences, and priorities

Pascaris

Schelly

Rouleau

et al. 2022

GRN TECH RES SUSTAIN

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“…In 2022, there was a record increase in renewable power generation installations: almost 340 GW of new power plant capacity worldwide, of which photovoltaics alone accounted for almost 220 GW (IEA, 2023). Ground‐mounted photovoltaic systems (solar parks) require large areas, and there is a continuing trend of increasing the land areas used for solar parks (Capellán‐Pérez et al, 2017; Kumpanalaisatit et al, 2022; van de Ven et al, 2021). In the Federal Republic of Germany, 1% of current agricultural land must be converted by 2030, and 1.7% by 2040, to meet the land demand for solar parks in the transition to a fully transformed energy system (based on the current political target of 215 gigawatts peak (GWp) installed capacity by 2030, and 400 GWp by 2040, with a specific land use of 1.4 ha/MWp; Böhm & Tietz, 2022).…”

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Solar parks as livestock enclosures can become key to linking energy, biodiversity and society

Zaplata

2023

People and Nature

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The expansion of renewable energy generation sites in the landscape is controversial, as is repopulation by large predators, particularly wolves. Both range extensions are recent phenomena, and both lead to harsh incompatibilities that arise from exclusions. Regarding solar parks, the problems would be solvable by a paradigm shift, namely towards inclusions. The required changes sound trivial: First, it would be more multifunctional to make use of the valuable plant growth in solar parks. Second, it would be more sustainable to rely on grazing rather than mowing for solar park maintenance. Grazing livestock would need to be protected from wolves by strong fencing. If these changes become the reality, this could locally remove large predators like the wolf from the line of fire of social resistance. In addition, implementation would bring benefits across sectors by bringing together previously divergent and hardened utilization concepts, which would ultimately have positive impacts for renewable energy generation, biodiversity and society. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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“…This review is intended as a form of "user-guide" for researchers and practitioners on the main concepts and technologies currently proposed and exploited to use AV for the intensification of agriculture. We are not going to duplicate extensive current activities reviews given in [9,[44][45][46][47], so section 2 is for the context understanding mainly, focusing on just several issues poorly covered in the literature such as irrigation, aquaculture, and cold storage. The novel part of this review is section 3 -Future trends arising from the recent progress in different areas of engineering and agriculture with a potential of significant synergistic effect once coupled with AV.…”

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A Mini-Review of Current Activities and Future Trends in Agrivoltaics

Klokov¹,

Loktionov²,

Loktionov³

et al. 2023

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Agrivoltaics (Agri-PV, AV) – the joint use of land for the production of agricultural products and energy – has recently been rapidly gaining popularity, as it can significantly increase income per unit of land area. In a broad sense, AV systems can include converters of not only solar, but also energy from any other local renewable source, including bioenergy. Current approach to AV represents an evolutionary development of agroecology and integrated PV power supply to the grid. That results in nearly doubled income per unit area. While AV could provide a basis for revolution in large-scale unmanned precision agriculture and smart farming which is impossible without on-site power supply, chemical fertilisation and pesticides reduction, and yield processing on-site. These approaches could change the logistics and the added value production chain in agriculture dramatically, and so, reduce its carbon footprint. Utilisation of decommissioned solar panels in AV could make the technology twice cheaper and postpone the need for bulk PV recycling. Unlike the mainstream discourse on the topic, this review feature is in focusing on the possibilities for AV to be stronger integrated into agriculture that could also help in relevant legal collisions (considered as neither rather than both components) resolution.

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Current status of agrivoltaic systems and their benefits to energy, food, environment, economy, and society

Cited by 45 publications

References 62 publications

Do agrivoltaics improve public support for solar? A survey on perceptions, preferences, and priorities

Do agrivoltaics improve public support for solar? A survey on perceptions, preferences, and priorities

Solar parks as livestock enclosures can become key to linking energy, biodiversity and society

A Mini-Review of Current Activities and Future Trends in Agrivoltaics

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