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Urban agrivoltaics enhance crop resilience and food-energy synergies in a changing climate

npj Urban Sustainability
Urban agrivoltaics, the synergistic integration of solar photovoltaics with urban agriculture, offers a transformative solution to food and energy insecurity, which are major barriers to sustainable urban development, especially in low-income urban areas
Caroline Merheb, Joshua S. Caplan, Pralad Phuyal, Jordan Macknick, Nicholas C. Davatzes, Sujith Ravi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wind sheltering in vertical agrivoltaics can increase crop yields: A modeling study for Northern Europe

Energy Nexus
Vertical agrivoltaics can help reduce land use competition by integrating food crop cultivation between rows of vertical solar panels. However, its agricultural viability is often questioned due to panel shading.
Erlend Hustad Honningdalsnes, Erik Stensrud Marstein, Dag Lindholm, Helge Bonesmo, Heine Nygard Riise   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Salad Yields Under Agrivoltaics: A Field Test

AgriVoltaics Conference Proceedings
Agrivoltaics is presented as a possible solution to the need for new sources of renewable energies, also responding to the increasing demand for feed/food and energy in a strongly efficient and sustainable manner.
Aldo Dal Prà, Lorenzo Genesio, Franco Miglietta, Federico Carotenuto, Silvia Baronti, Marco Moriondo, Antonino Greco, Nicola Morè, Laura Svanera, Alessandro Reboldi   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global Land‐Water Competition and Synergy Between Solar Energy and Agriculture

Earth's Future
The food and energy systems face mounting challenges due to increasing demands and sustainability constraints, which impact their ability to efficiently utilize natural resources, such as land and freshwater.
Maddalena Curioni, Nikolas Galli, Giampaolo Manzolini, Maria Cristina Rulli   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agrivoltaics Across Crops and Technologies: A Systematic Review of Experimental Tests on Yield, Microclimate, and Energy Performance

Energies
Agrivoltaics is a rapidly expanding technology thanks to its energy, agronomic, and microclimatic benefits, which have been demonstrated in a variety of climatic contexts around the world.
Carlo Renno, Olga Di Marino
doaj   +1 more source

Use of Solar Panels for Shade for Holstein Heifers. [PDF]

Animals (Basel), 2023
Faria AFPA, Maia ASC, Moura GAB, Fonsêca VFC, Nascimento ST, Milan HFM, Gebremedhin KG.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Are farmers willing to lease land for agrivoltaics? The role of information

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
Agrivoltaics offers a strategy to expand renewable energy production while preserving agricultural land use through lease agreements between solar utilities and landowners. It can also provide farmers with additional income.
Justin Chamberlin, Anastasia W. Thayer, Felipe De Figueiredo Silva, Dawoon Jeong, Michael Vassalos   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integration of sustainability dimensions with decision-making science: a systematic literature review of agrivoltaics

Sustainable Energy Research
This systematic literature review aggregates current research on agrivoltaics (published between 2015 and mid-2024) with a focus on the integration of the three dimensions of sustainability, namely the environment, economics, and society, with the aid of
Xiao Chen, Rajib Shaw
doaj   +1 more source

Agrivoltaic Implementation in Greenhouses : A Techno-Economic Analysis of Agrivoltaic Installations for Greenhouses in Sweden

, 2022
Due to the growing population and climate change, the world will see an increase in demand for food, freshwater and renewable energy supply. Agrivoltaics has the possibility to address all these problems, by producing food and renewable energy but also by reducing water usage in agriculture.
openaire   +1 more source

Agrivoltaics: Modeling the relative importance of longwave radiation from solar panels. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Shepard LA, Higgins CW, Proctor KW.
europepmc   +1 more source