Exploring the Grape Agrivoltaic System: Climate Modulation and Vine Benefits in the Puglia Region, Southeastern Italy

Horticulturae, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 11(2), С. 160 - 160

Опубликована: Фев. 3, 2025

Climate change poses significant challenges to agriculture, a sector with long-standing tradition in the Mediterranean basin. The region faces altered rainfall patterns, extreme temperatures, aridification, loss of biodiversity, and changes crop yield quality. These impacts, combined intensive farming practices, threaten long-term agricultural sustainability. This study investigates agrivoltaics (AVs), dual-use technology that integrates solar energy production (photovoltaic panels) as potential solution enhance resilience adaptation crops. Research at an AV system Puglia (Southeastern Italy), grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.), assessed soil moisture, temperature, microclimate conditions together vine fruitfulness. Results showed shading from photovoltaic panels increased moisture moderated thus benefiting Vines beneath yielded more grapes (+277%) than full sun, confirmed by even better bud fruitfulness shaded canes. While had minimal impact on air they reduced wind speed vapor pressure deficit, creating microenvironment for vines. Spectral analysis revealed increase UV blue light under panels, potentially affecting photosynthesis. also produced substantial electricity, 90% compared ground-mounted system, demonstrating its application. higher land equivalent ratio (LER) achieved (3.54) such systems can be advantageous areas climate, allowing same land.

Язык: Английский

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Integration of Crops, Livestock, and Solar Panels: A Review of Agrivoltaic Systems

Agronomy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(8), С. 1824 - 1824

Опубликована: Авг. 19, 2024

This review article focuses on agrivoltaic production systems (AV). The transition towards renewable energy sources, driven by the need to respond climate change, competition for land use, and scarcity of fossil fuels, has led consideration new ways optimise use while producing clean energy. AV not only generate but also allow agricultural livestock yields be maintained or even increased under PV structures, offering a sustainable strategy that may more acceptable local communities than traditional installations. assesses technical feasibility systems, environmental, economic social benefits, as well challenges faced legal framework regulating their implementation. It is highlighted despite advantages in efficiency dual food production, there are important related initial investment required, technological adaptation, regulatory obstacles, effects shading production. paper underlines importance further research development these overcome constraints maximise potential benefits. concluded although they present significant challenges, management offers promising opportunities improve contribute several goals.

Язык: Английский

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Suitability of Existing Photovoltaic Degradation Models for Agrivoltaic Systems

Energies, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 18(8), С. 1937 - 1937

Опубликована: Апрель 10, 2025

Agrivoltaic (AV) systems have the potential to meet growing demand for sustainable societal development due their ability simultaneously enable food and energy production by using photovoltaics (PVs) on same land used agricultural activities. One of major factors restricting widespread implementation AV is lack information regarding operational lifetime, which influenced various degradation factors. This paper reviews main factors, modes, physical mechanisms responsible PV deterioration performance inhibitors in conventional installations, including how these are evaluated, modeled, potentially modified when placing PVs settings typical systems. These modes been largely overlooked modeling system designs use optimization. Therefore, further advancements required properly understand environments play a role modifying thermal, irradiance, hydrolysis whether such can lead onset new pathways. To enhance adoption sector, insights ensure that maintenance costs communicated well understood end users.

Язык: Английский

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Agrivoltaics for small ruminants: A review

Small Ruminant Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 241, С. 107393 - 107393

Опубликована: Ноя. 10, 2024

Язык: Английский

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