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

Klokov, Alexander V.
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Loktionov, Egor Yu.
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Loktionov, Yuri V.
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April 1, 2023
Energies

Agrivoltaics (Agri-PV, AV) - the joint use of land for the production 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 not only solar, but also energy from any other local renewable source, including bioenergy. Current approach to AV represents an evolutionary development of agroecology and integrated PV power supply to the grid. That results in nearly doubled income per unit area. While AV could provide a basis for revolution in large-scale unmanned precision agriculture and smart farming which is impossible without on-site power supply, chemical fertilisation and pesticides reduction, and yield processing on-site. These approaches could change the logistics and the added value production chain in agriculture dramatically, and so, reduce its carbon footprint. Utilisation of decommissioned solar panels in AV could make the technology twice cheaper and postpone the need for bulk PV recycling. Unlike the mainstream discourse on the topic, this review feature is in focusing on the possibilities for AV to be stronger integrated into agriculture that could also help in relevant legal collisions (considered as neither rather than both components) resolution.

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review article
DOI
10.3390/en16073009
Web of Science ID

WOS:000968610600001

Author(s)
Klokov, Alexander V.
Loktionov, Egor Yu.
Loktionov, Yuri V.
Panchenko, Vladimir Anatolevich
Sharaborova, Elizaveta S.  
Date Issued

2023-04-01

Published in
Energies
Volume

16

Issue

7

Article Number

3009

Subjects

Energy & Fuels

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Energy & Fuels

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photovoltaics

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biogas

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agriculture 4.0

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unmanned vehicles

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smart grid

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tiso-10-kw solar plant

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photovoltaics analysis

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anaerobic-digestion

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carbon-dioxide

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lessons learnt

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partial shade

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rural-areas

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dual-use

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energy

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systems

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