Fields and the Sun: Agricultural PV, an Opportunity for the Energy and the Farming Industry

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The EU’s goals are formidable: The entire photo voltaic power deployment is to achieve round 750 gigawatts by 2030. On this context, twin land use ideas, particularly agricultural PV, are gaining significance. At Intersolar Europe, the world’s main exhibition for the photo voltaic business, guests may have the chance to see a different vary of applied sciences, merchandise and options for agricultural PV, and to achieve deeper insights into finest practices and the newest developments. Intersolar Europe will happen from June 19–21, 2024 as a part of The smarter E Europe, the continent’s largest alliance of exhibitions for the power business, in Munich.

Agriculture or renewable sources of power — up to now, it was both, or. Agricultural PV is a brand new, modern strategy providing promising choices for agriculture and local weather safety by becoming a member of agricultural manufacturing and the technology of electrical energy on the identical floor.

In depth subsidies

European nations equivalent to Germany and France subsidize agricultural PV with the goal of deploying extra photo voltaic power whereas decreasing the competitors for land use. Germany has launched a separate public sale section with a prime worth for “special solar installation” (which incorporates agricultural PV installations) within the Photo voltaic Bundle 1, and France is deemed one of many pioneers for devoted laws. Different nations, equivalent to Austria and the Netherlands, additionally promote their agricultural PV sector.

Advantages of agricultural PV

The benefits of twin land use are apparent: It reconciles photo voltaic power with agriculture, and the safety in opposition to storm, hale, frost and draught provides an additional bonus for farmers. The electrical energy manufacturing prices are decrease than from small roof-mounted installations, and farmers’ revenue is diversified. Shading and wind safety offered by photo voltaic panels reduces evaporation, and modern photo voltaic panels have been developed that additionally accumulate rainwater for irrigation. This could profit farming operations by boosting their resilience in opposition to crop failure.

Greatest follow tasks

Pilot tasks are rising throughout Europe. Within the Dutch native authority of Meierijstad, for instance, BayWa r.e. AG and their subsidiary GroenLeven are implementing a pioneering agricultural PV venture, a 8.7 megawatt peak photo voltaic set up protecting an unlimited raspberry plantation. On Sicily, figs and olives develop between the module rows of Europe’s largest agricultural PV plant. In Neißeaue, Germany, Next2Sun Know-how works on a 20 megawatts photo voltaic farm with vertical modules.

Intersolar Europe 2024: particular consideration on agricultural PV

Intersolar Europe is placing a specific deal with agricultural PV. A particular exhibit within the Outside Space shall be devoted to the subject. Companions of the particular exhibit are BayWa AG, BayWa r.e., Conexio PSE, Vista Geo and ZIMMERMANN PV-Metal Group. What’s extra, of the greater than 1,370 Intersolar Europe exhibitors, some 60 exhibitors shall be showcasing agricultural PV merchandise and options. Specialists will dive deeper into the subject and provide even wider info at a variety of periods on the Intersolar Discussion board and the Intersolar Europe Convention.

Intersolar Europe

Because the world’s main exhibition for the photo voltaic business, Intersolar Europe demonstrates the big vitality of the photo voltaic market. For greater than 30 years, it has been offering a networking alternative for key gamers, specializing in the newest tendencies, developments and enterprise fashions beneath the motto “Connecting Solar Business”. Intersolar Europe will happen from June 19–21, 2024 as a part of The smarter E Europe at Messe München.

Additional info: www.intersolar.de/en.