France embraces solar with viticulture, arboriculture as well as market gardening

• The French federal government has picked seven agrivoltaic tasks with an overall generation ability of 12 MW in its newest tender for ingenious PV modern technology.

Professional Sunlight' Agri is dealing with local environment and astral body the Agence régionale Énergie Climat (AREC) Occitanie to recognize seven agrivoltaic installments assigned in the most up to date national tender for cutting-edge PV jobs.

The market horticulture, viticulture and also arboriculture installments, which will have a complete generation capability of 12 MW, were awarded in a tender held by energy regulatory authority the Compensation de régulation de l'énergie (CRE) and will call for investment of around EUR16 million.

A lot of the tasks, which vary in range from 575 kW to 3 MW, are in the south of France, especially the divisions of Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Gard and Hérault. The arrays will certainly be installed at no charge to the businesses worried as well as financed by the sale of the electricity they produce.

Louvers

The projects will involve photovoltaic panels being mounted above crops on mobile, blind-like louvers at an ideal height to permit crops to expand, farming machinery to access and airflows to continue, according to French agrivoltaic organisation Sunlight'Agri. The panels will be managed by formulas and also managed according to solar radiation and panel alignment or the color requirement of crops, thinking about development models as well as ideal weather.

The seven agrivoltaïc jobs were created under an arrangement joined October 10 in between Sunlight'Agri and also AREC Occitanie which aims "to identify as well as monetarily support the relevant jobs of agrivoltaïc demonstrators in the area; [and also] to promote the advancement of brand-new projects by formulating a charter of great conduct for gamers in the emerging market of agrivoltaism," stated Sunlight'Agri.

A Sun'Agri demonstration project has remained in solution since 2018 at the Nidolères red wine estate in Tresserre, in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, with 7.5 ha of vineyard transformed to sustainable viticulture for 3 grape selections: Marselan, Chardonnay and also Grenache blanc.

Some 39 projects were assigned in the CRE's latest cutting-edge solar tender, with a complete generation ability of 104 MW, of which 40 MW are provided by agrivoltaics centers. The designated tasks will provide electricity for an ordinary last price of EUR82.80/ MWh.