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

Alexander V. Klokov, Egor Yu. Loktionov, Yuri V. Loktionov, Vladimir A. Panchenko and Elizaveta S. Sharaborova
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Alexander V. Klokov: State Lab for Photon Energetics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5-1, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005 Moscow, Russia
Egor Yu. Loktionov: State Lab for Photon Energetics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5-1, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005 Moscow, Russia
Yuri V. Loktionov: State Lab for Photon Energetics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5-1, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005 Moscow, Russia
Vladimir A. Panchenko: State Lab for Photon Energetics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5-1, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005 Moscow, Russia
Elizaveta S. Sharaborova: State Lab for Photon Energetics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5-1, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005 Moscow, Russia

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 7, 1-18

Abstract: Agrivoltaics (Agri-PV, AV)—the joint use of land for the generation 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 solar energy, and also energy from any other local renewable source, including bioenergy. Current approaches to AV represent the evolutionary development of agroecology and integrated PV power supply to the grid, and can result in nearly doubled income per unit area. AV could provide a basis for a revolution in large-scale unmanned precision agriculture and smart farming which will be impossible without on-site power supply, reduction of chemical fertiliser and pesticides, and yield processing on site. These approaches could dramatically change the logistics and the added value production chain in agriculture, and so reduce its carbon footprint. Utilisation of decommissioned solar panels in AV could halve the cost of the technology and postpone the need for bulk PV recycling. Unlike the mainstream discourse on the topic, this review feature focuses on the possibilities for AV to become more strongly integrated into agriculture, which could also help in resolution of relevant legal disputes (considered as neither rather than both components).

Keywords: photovoltaics; biogas; agriculture 4.0; unmanned vehicles; smart grid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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