Development of a quick-scan webtool to facilitate agrivoltaic system design

Willockx, Brecht; Lavaert, Cas; Cappelle, Jan

doi:10.1109/rest54687.2022.10022628

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“…That's why most horticulture PV systems aim for a lot of space between the poles and necessitate a certain amount of vertical clearance. Full harvesters, which can reach heights of up to 5 m, are frequently used as a yardstick for vertical clearance in arable farming [19].…”

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Combining solar panels with plants for sustainable energy and food production: state of the art

Panda,

Kumar,

Panda

et al. 2024

IJAPE

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The need for alternative energy sources becomes extensive because of the escalating cost of fossil fuels. The goal of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of combining photovoltaics and agriculture for better yield. Photovoltaic (PV) solar plants will compete with farms for available land. In this study, the methodologies are discussed how it is possible to maximize land utilization by placing solar arrays and food crops on the same plot of land. The term is proposed "agrivoltaic system" to describe this setup. Conventional solutions (discrimination of agricultural and energy extracting) were compared to two agrivoltaic schemes with varying density of PV arrays using land equivalent ratios. We utilized a crop model to simulate the amount of sunlight reaching the crop from an array of solar panels and to speculate on the yield reduction that would result from the partial shading. These early findings suggest that agrivoltaic systems may be highly effective; the two densities of PV panels were anticipated to boost worldwide land production by 73%. One possible explanation for the success of these hybrid systems is the presence of facilitation mechanisms analogous to those seen in agroforestry. At the end it is suggested that in places where arable land is rare, new solar plants may find it beneficial to produce both power and food.

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Combining solar panels with plants for sustainable energy and food production: state of the art

Panda,

Kumar,

Panda

et al. 2024

IJAPE

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“…There are few existing agrivoltaics modeling approaches, e.g. the agrivoltaics webtool (Willockx et al 2022), the Food and Energy Farms Simulation Tool (Torsina et al 2019), and the AGRIPV model by NREL (2022). However, the approaches fall short in modeling plant growth and biomass production.…”

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OWEFE—open modeling framework for integrated water, energy, food, and environment systems

Fleischmann

Blechinger²,

Ribbe³

et al. 2023

Environ. Res.: Infrastruct. Sustain.

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The integrated approach to managing the fundamental resources for human life, namely, water, energy, food, and the environment as their irreplaceable foundation, presents a profound opportunity for sustainable development. However, despite their huge potential, integrated water, energy, food, and environment systems (iWEFEs) are rarely put into practice because of, among others, complexity and a lack of uniform and openly available models to describe, configure and simulate such systems. To fill this gap, we present the open modeling framework for integrated water, energy, food, and environment systems (OWEFE) based on the open energy modeling framework (OEMOF). OWEFE follows an open, cross-sectoral, and modular design approach to address crucial challenges for the project development of iWEFEs. In this study, we apply OWEFE for the first time to model a wastewater biogas system and an agrivoltaics system. The results of the OWEFE-based models are in the range of a conventional approach respectively of on-site measurements indicating the framework’s capability to model diverse iWEFEs. The wide application of the framework can improve the assessment, planning, and configuration of iWEFEs for sustainable and integrated infrastructure development.

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Forecasting Insolation Shaded by Solar Panels for Optimal Layout in Agrivoltaic System

Sasaki,

Itabashi,

Hamada

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE 12th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)

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Development of a quick-scan webtool to facilitate agrivoltaic system design

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

Combining solar panels with plants for sustainable energy and food production: state of the art

Combining solar panels with plants for sustainable energy and food production: state of the art

OWEFE—open modeling framework for integrated water, energy, food, and environment systems

Forecasting Insolation Shaded by Solar Panels for Optimal Layout in Agrivoltaic System

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