Statkraft partners with Italian university to check out the potential of agri-PV

• Statkraft Italy has authorized a four-year research study arrangement with the Department of Agro-Environmental and Territorial Sciences (DiSAAT) at the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy to explore the potential of agri-photovoltaics (agri-PV) in Europe.

The research intends to analyze new methods, methodologies and technologies in the field of electrical power generation and farming to accomplish the appropriate assimilation in between PV systems and also agricultural manufacturing, optimising the yield in both fields.

The finds will be presented to public administrations, entrepreneurs, farmers and regional areas, Statkraft stated in a media release.

It stated the research was in line with the objectives of COP26, the European Green Deal, the Fit for 55 roadmap and also the REpowerEU method, although several of these have been branded as progressively out-of-date offered current geopolitical events.

Among other subjects, the research partners will certainly look at which crops are best integrated with the presence of PV systems, considering farming and mechanisation demands, manufacturing and also harvesting methods, the sort of PV systems as well as the ecological effect.

Agri-PV has long been touted as a way to prolong solar release while shielding land use and increasing area acceptance of sustainable projects.

Certainly, SolarPower Europe has actually asked for the immediate release of agri-PV systems as part of an eight-point strategy to reach 1TW of solar by 2030 amid the repercussions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

There has been a flurry of activity in the agri-PV space lately, with Germany set to increase solar release on agricultural land, solar supplier Heliene as well as US nanomaterials specialist UbiQD collaborating on agri-PV modules and Helexia getting French agri-PV installer and also operations business Cap Sud, to name yet a couple of.

The title of the Statkraft and also DiSAAT project is "Agri-photovoltaics for a lasting future".