Economic Potential for Rainfed Agrivoltaics in Groundwater-Stressed Regions

Parkinson, Simon; Hunt, Julian David

doi:10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00349

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“…Water conservation & water use efficiency AV-cropping; AV-habitat Ravi et al, 2016;Adeh et al, 2018;Barron-Gafford et al, 2019;Hernandez et al, 2019;Parkinson and Hunt, 2020;Agostini et al, 2021;Walston et al, 2021;Al Mamun et al, 2022 Biodiversity conservation AV-habitat Ravi et al, 2016;Walston et al, 2018Walston et al, , 2021Agostini et al, 2021;Blaydes et al, 2021;Dolezal et al, 2021; (Fischer et al, 2022). The associated land area (estimated as about 165 million acres or 67 million ha) is <0.5% of global land mass, but also represents a significant opportunity for AV systems to provide ecosystem services in addition to energy production.…”

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confidence: 99%

Opportunities for agrivoltaic systems to achieve synergistic food-energy-environmental needs and address sustainability goals

Walston

Barley

Bhandari

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Achieving decarbonization goals to address global climate change and increasing energy needs requires significant continued investments in solar energy. The expansion of utility-scale solar development across the globe has increased the pressure on land resources for energy generation and other land uses (e.g., agriculture, biodiversity conservation). To address this growing issue, greater emphasis has been placed on solar development strategies that maximize the benefits of solar energy generation and multiple ecosystem services, such as the development of agrivoltaics systems that co-locate solar energy production and various forms of conservation and agricultural land uses. The purpose of this paper is to systematically synthesize the potential ecosystem services of agrivoltaics and summarize how these development strategies could address several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our review will focus on four broad potential ecosystem services of agrivoltaics: (1) energy and economic benefits; (2) agricultural provisioning services of food production and animal husbandry; (3) biodiversity conservation; and (4) regulating ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and water and soil conservation. In particular, we will highlight the state of the science, challenges, and knowledge gaps that represent opportunities for further study to better understand how solar energy deployment can facilitate sustainable development.

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confidence: 99%

Opportunities for agrivoltaic systems to achieve synergistic food-energy-environmental needs and address sustainability goals

Walston

Barley

Bhandari

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Research in the field continues to progress at a furious pace. Aside from these pilot projects, agrivoltaics have triggered much interest in the research community that explores the potential from different disciplinary perspectives and practical issues, such as the solar power potential by land cover type (croplands, grasslands and wetlands) [14], the water use efficiency in drylands [15] or groundwater stressed regions [16] (PV-water nexus), the economic value of energy production coupled with shade tolerant crop production [17], the implementation in peri-urban agriculture areas [18] or the viability over shade-intolerant crops in specific geographical locations [19,20].…”

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Agrivoltaic Systems Design and Assessment: A Critical Review, and a Descriptive Model towards a Sustainable Landscape Vision (Three-Dimensional Agrivoltaic Patterns)

2021

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As an answer to the increasing demand for photovoltaics as a key element in the energy transition strategy of many countries—which entails land use issues, as well as concerns regarding landscape transformation, biodiversity, ecosystems and human well-being—new approaches and market segments have emerged that consider integrated perspectives. Among these, agrivoltaics is emerging as very promising for allowing benefits in the food–energy (and water) nexus. Demonstrative projects are developing worldwide, and experience with varied design solutions suitable for the scale up to commercial scale is being gathered based primarily on efficiency considerations; nevertheless, it is unquestionable that with the increase in the size, from the demonstration to the commercial scale, attention has to be paid to ecological impacts associated to specific design choices, and namely to those related to landscape transformation issues. This study reviews and analyzes the technological and spatial design options that have become available to date implementing a rigorous, comprehensive analysis based on the most updated knowledge in the field, and proposes a thorough methodology based on design and performance parameters that enable us to define the main attributes of the system from a trans-disciplinary perspective.

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“…Moreover, LCAs of the production of broadly employed titanium dioxide nanoparticles [110] and butyl acetate [111] furnished conceptual directing for more sustainable synthesis of both. This procedure was used in suggesting the conversion of agricultural land in groundwater-stressed areas from irrigated crop types to rain-fed crop types combined with diversification to solar harvesting, so-called "agrivoltaics" [112].…”

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Green Chemistry and Process Intensification: Milestones on a Sustainable Development

Ghernaout

Elboughdiri

Lajimi

2021

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As a philosophical support, green chemistry (GC) becomes at present well-combined into the scientific system to assist scientists and engineers consider how to decrease or remove waste and avert the employment and formation of hazardous substances in the design phase of chemicals. Such design attempts in turn affect the full life-cycle of the chemical, from getting the starting materials until the end-use product is recycled or disposed of. There is a considerable advance noted in such direction during the last three decades, this review focuses on GC research. As a comparatively fresh technique, revision in process intensification (PI) is fast and investigation could rapidly lead to outstanding outcomes. However, numerous features of PI could take more time to be fact. Much of the study stays in academic and industrial laboratories, even if large-scale implementations of micro-reactors are actuality. Fields of PI enterprise that have progressed quickly are the expansion of carbon capture techniques, an increasing interest in GC, and the beginning of momentous study into connecting solar energy to intensified methods like chemical reactions. Electric fields (e.g., microwaves and ultrasound) are observed in larger usages, and the application of electrokinetic forces at the micro- and nanoscale persist to fascinate. Huge investigations are working for the sake of ideas like the perfect reactor. PI remains a motif leading to attain a sustainable society. This work may be an orientation in the investigation of product development and design, production and application, in a constructive and stimulating way.

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Economic Potential for Rainfed Agrivoltaics in Groundwater-Stressed Regions

Cited by 30 publications

References 35 publications

Opportunities for agrivoltaic systems to achieve synergistic food-energy-environmental needs and address sustainability goals

Opportunities for agrivoltaic systems to achieve synergistic food-energy-environmental needs and address sustainability goals

Agrivoltaic Systems Design and Assessment: A Critical Review, and a Descriptive Model towards a Sustainable Landscape Vision (Three-Dimensional Agrivoltaic Patterns)

Green Chemistry and Process Intensification: Milestones on a Sustainable Development

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