Implications of Agriculturally Co-Located Solar PV Installations on the FEW Nexus in the Central Valley

Stid, Jacob T; Shukla, Siddharth; Anctil, Annick; Kendall, A. D.; Hyndman, D. W.

doi:10.1109/pvsc48317.2022.9938746

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“…The resulting dataset (925 agriculturally co-located solar PV arrays) included 686 ground-mounted arrays from Stid et al 9,88 plus 239 from Kruitwagen et al 7 . For these sites, we calculated solar PV array peak capacity (kWp) by 91 :…”

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“…We used remote sensing imagery, existing solar PV arrays, and GIS datasets to identify the most complete publicly available dataset of ground-mounted solar PV arrays co-located with agriculture in the CCV through 2018. We extracted all existing non-residential solar PV arrays from two geospatial datasets (Kruitwagen et al 7 and Stid et al 9,88 ) within the bounds of the CCV alluvial boundary 89 . We then removed duplicate arrays with preference given to Stid et al 9 to retain reported panel area and installation year.…”

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From Fields to Photovoltaics: Effects of Agrisolar Co-Location on Food, Energy, Water, and Economic Security

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Achieving sustainable net-zero energy production requires understanding how solar PV installations affect the landscape and its critical resources. To enhance this understanding, we investigate agrisolar co-location, which is land that is broadly co-managed for agricultural production, solar photovoltaic electricity production, and ecosystem services. We present a food, energy, water, and economic impact analysis of agricultural output offset by agrisolar co-location for 925 arrays (2.53 GWp covering 39.3 km2) spanning the California Central Valley. We find that agrisolar co-location displaces a significant amount of food production. However, agrisolar co-location also increases economic security for farmers and likely enhances water sustainability, and thus future agricultural production, by reducing irrigation water use and facilitating the fallowing of irrigated land. Given the unprecedented pace of solar PV expansion globally, these results highlight the need for a deeper understanding of the multifaceted outcomes of agricultural and solar PV co-location decisions.

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confidence: 99%

From Fields to Photovoltaics: Effects of Agrisolar Co-Location on Food, Energy, Water, and Economic Security

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Shukla,

Kendall

et al. 2023

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Implications of Agriculturally Co-Located Solar PV Installations on the FEW Nexus in the Central Valley

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From Fields to Photovoltaics: Effects of Agrisolar Co-Location on Food, Energy, Water, and Economic Security

From Fields to Photovoltaics: Effects of Agrisolar Co-Location on Food, Energy, Water, and Economic Security

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