The new Special Edition on the decentralised generation and use of solar power in agriculture has been published. It is available to download free of charge.
The owners of the newly founded Erneuerbare Energie Prignitz want to build a total of 140 megawatts of solar power capacity. The local population is to benefit from solar power generation.
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.
G&G Sonnenstrom built its agri-PV system with Next2Sun technology. But it was more than the dual-use option that convinced the jurors to award the project with the Solar Prize.
In Gabersdorf, Austria, Next2Sun has commissioned the first vertical Agri-PV plant in the country. The plant will be scientifically monitored over a period of three years.
Photovoltaics for generating one's own electricity is becoming increasingly popular on farms. Farmer Alexander Kuhn, for example, has installed a self-power system consisting of photovoltaics and a storage unit with Kostal technology on his 70-hectare farm.
Within the framework of a project, scientists from various disciplines want to work out the framework conditions that are necessary for the rapid development of agriphotovoltaics.
Finding the right system size and deciding for or against a storage unit: This is something that a new planning software is supposed to provide assistance with for decision-makers in farms in the future.
The use of agricultural land for additional electricity production with photovoltaics is gaining more and more attention. Our current special shows how farmers can refine their land with solar energy. It is available to download for free.
Farmers are showing great interest in photovoltaic systems. Our current special issue is dedicated to the topic of self-generated electricity in agriculture. It is available to download for free.
The international trade fair for decentralised energy systems for farms will take place in mid-November. But interested companies can already register as exhibitors now.
Together with the German Agricultural Society (DLG) and our German sister publication photovoltaik, we are publishing two special issues on agriculture and photovoltaics. See here for more details:
A new training and demonstration facility in Krasnodar in southern Russia has been demonstrating the integration of photovoltaic electricity into the region's electricity distribution grid since July 2020.
The trade fair, which focuses on the supply of electricity to farms, had to be cancelled as a presence event. But the organisers have developed an innovative online platform.
The so-far-unused potential of photovoltaics in agriculture is enormous, with an area of several million hectares of farmland. Our guest author Volker Korrmann, who manages the project Flower-Power at eWind, proposes a solution:
