2nd Annual AgriVoltaics Europe Event

EXCLUSIVE SITE VISIT

During the afternoon of Tuesday 7th November 2023, a limited number of conference attendees will receive a unique opportunity to explore the grass/clover movable arch agripv system in Lelystad and the foldable agrivoltaics system (called SolarBalance).

Why agrivoltaics?

Agrivoltaics combines the use of land for farming with the production of electricity by photovoltaics. It provides the opportunity to establish solutions for the production of food crops and electricity at the same time, taking into account soil protection and water savings. It offers powerful solutions to several issues arising from climate change.

Energy or food from agricultural land? Why should we have to choose? Couldn’t we associate both types of production on the same land to get the most out of solar energy and achieve the energy evolution and conversion to sustainable energy production, while nourishing the ever-increasing world population? Is it attainable? If so, how? This conference will tackle the importance of agrivoltaics, several challenges that agrivoltaic systems address, and the farm’s role in agrivoltaics.

Indeed, photovoltaics is growing in Europe, with around 18.7 gigawatts of new capacity installed last year. Agrivoltaic includes the use of agricultural land to produce food and create solar energy at the same time. Moreover, there is a growing interest in agro photovoltaics worldwide as a way to merge solar power generation with sustainable, water-conserving agriculture and advance climate mitigation and adaptation. According to SolarPower Europe, local agriculture and solar energy could become the engines of a sustainable European economy. The coexistence of solar panels and crops includes light sharing so that panels situated above the crop generate shade and create a kind of microclimate over the growing area. This results in more freshness, less water needed for the plants, and lower losses originating from evaporation.

Agrivoltaics is a clean energy solution that helps farms and agriculture protect themselves from great weather conditions and other damaging factors. Innovative companies in this field design new solar louvers planned to satisfy plants’ ideal conditions; however, they also help to manage available sunlight or shade to improve crop quality and quantity. For instance, the South of France has more than 300 sunny days each year and has a long record of solar energy innovations, starting in 1970 with the world-famous solar furnace at Odeillo. Several photovoltaic systems have been set up in the area, involving agrivoltaic systems in greenhouses and open fields. The largest dynamic agrivoltaic plant in the world is right there, with vineyards underneath.

Agrivoltaics Conference 2023 has been fluttering the dove coats on a constant note these days. The agribusiness conference will be solely based on the implications of the use of solar power and ancillary technologies in this domain. The chief objective will be laid on the cutting-edge research activities which are going on in this field. One of the incentives of the agri voltaic events 2023 is to enlighten the stakeholders on the commercial benefits of this promising proposition. This humongous agribusiness conference is all set to take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands from the 7th of November to the 9th November of 2023.

Agrophotovoltaic events of a large magnitude

One of the major aspects of the Solar Energy Event 2023 is to let the world understand the quintessence and intense advantages of the Agrophotovoltaics event from a broad perspective. The agripv conference will tend to throw light on the effective measures which are being executed to bridge the gap between the challenges as well as the effective workarounds of the field.

It is inferred that the Solar Power Conference 2023 is going to be a successful one in its own right. Let's keep our fingers crossed to divulge the promising future that it has in store. Apart from business entities, many agriculture students, as well as scholars, will take part in the Agricola event. NGO professionals and organizations