The 1-billion-dollar Oak Run Solar Project, approved by the Ohio Power Siting Board last week, will sit on over 6,000 acres in Madison County, west of Columbus, Ohio in the United States.
At Agritechnica, suppliers of agrivoltaic systems presented solutions on how farmers can utilise their land multiple times. They also showed future scenarios of how modern agriculture can develop in the course of the solar energy transition.
Corab S.A. and Kelfield have signed a letter of intent based on which they will build agrovoltaic power plants with the target total power of more than 1 GW in Poland.
Vattenfall is now focusing more on Agri-PV. The energy company now wants to implement the innovative concept of dual land use on a commercial scale with partners for the first time. The investment decision for the Agri-PV project with 76 megawatts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has been made. The project will be built without state subsidies.
Starlight, a company within the NextEnergy Group focused on renewable asset development globally, iinitiated an innovative agri-eco-voltaics project in Italy called Land of the Sun.
Pacifico Energy Partners and Eiffel Investment Group join forces to develop photovoltaic plants and battery energy storage systems in Europe with a focus on agrivoltaic projects in Italy.
Agrivoltaics (Agri-PV) allows farmers to make double use of their cultivated land: Now the updated agrivoltaics-guideline of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE is available in English.
R.Power Group, plans to significantly increase its market share in Italy. In the past month alone, the company signed agreements with landowners for PV farms of more than 100 MW. Goal is to have over 1 GW developed projects within a year.
The Agrivoltaic team at Mälardalen University/Sweden has been awarded the Solar Energy Prize of Svensk Solenergi in the Achievement of the Year category for their research project that investigates the possibilities of combining solar cells and cultivation on agricultural land.
Interest in agrivoltaics is growing worldwide as a way to combine solar power generation with sustainable, water-conserving agriculture and advance climate mitigation and adaptation.
Agricultural PV (or agrivoltaics) is the simultaneous use of land for both agriculture and solar power generation. This year‘s Intersolar Europe in Munich will put a major focus on this topic.
Energiepark Bruck and EWS have signed a cooperation agreement for the construction of the largest Agri-PV pilot plant in Austria. As a particularly innovative lighthouse project, the EWS Sonnenfeld has been awarded the contract by the expert jury of the Climate and Energy Fund.
Interview: Anna Werner, CEO of Svensk Solenergi, about the growing PV market in Sweden, the wish of many farmers to harvest more solar power and the need for simpler permitting for solar parks especially in Southern Sweden.
A new guideline provides up-to-date information on agrivoltaics, its potential and the current state of development.
Photovoltaics is booming in Europe. Agrivoltaics specifically involves the use of agricultural land to produce food and generate solar energy simultaneously. This will be a focus of this year’s Intersolar Europe.
