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A Mini-Review of Current Activities and Future Trends in Agrivoltaics
Alexander V. Klokov, Egor Yu. Loktionov, Yuri V. Loktionov, Vladimir A. Panchenko, Elizaveta S. Sharaborova
April 17, 2023
Agrivoltaics (Agri-PV, AV)—the joint use of land for the generation 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 solar energy, and also energy from any other local renewable source, including bioenergy. Current approaches to AV represent the evolutionary development of agroecology and integrated PV power supply to the grid, and can result in nearly doubled income per unit area. AV could provide a basis for a revolution in large-scale unmanned precision agriculture and smart farming which will be impossible without on-site power supply, reduction of chemical fertiliser and pesticides, and yield processing on site. These approaches could dramatically change the logistics and the added value production chain in agriculture, and so reduce its carbon footprint. Utilisation of decommissioned solar panels in AV could halve the cost of the technology and postpone the need for bulk PV recycling. Unlike the mainstream discourse on the topic, this review feature focuses on the possibilities for AV to become more strongly integrated into agriculture, which could also help in resolution of relevant legal disputes (considered as neither rather than both components).
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agriculture 4.0, biogas, photovoltaics, smart grid, unmanned vehicles
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Klokov AV, Loktionov EY, Loktionov YV, Panchenko VA, Sharaborova ES. A Mini-Review of Current Activities and Future Trends in Agrivoltaics. (2023). LAPSE:2023.30755
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Klokov AV: State Lab for Photon Energetics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5-1, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005 Moscow, Russia
Loktionov EY: State Lab for Photon Energetics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5-1, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005 Moscow, Russia [ORCID]
Loktionov YV: State Lab for Photon Energetics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5-1, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005 Moscow, Russia [ORCID]
Panchenko VA: State Lab for Photon Energetics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5-1, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005 Moscow, Russia; Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Russian University of Transport, 9b9, Obraztsova Str., 127994 Moscow, Russia; Fed [ORCID]
Sharaborova ES: State Lab for Photon Energetics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5-1, 2nd Baumanskaya Str., 105005 Moscow, Russia; Laboratoire des Sciences Cryosphériques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Energies
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16
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7
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3009
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2023
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2023-03-25
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1996-1073
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