Agriculture

Renewable energy technologies such as wind generators and solar panels are obtaining traction, however are occasionally met regional resistance because they take up valuable room that can otherwise be used for agricultural production.

Association steps in amid mounting criticism of the technology by UK leadership candidates

Solar supplier Heliene as well as US nanomaterials specialist UbiQD are to work together on PV modules targeted at the expanding 'agrivoltaic' sector.

Germany is releasing a campaign to support the construction of solar projects on agricultural land, in a relocation the economy ministry price quotes could result in the release of 200GW of additional PV capacity.

The Portuguese Ministry of Agriculture introduced it is designating EUR 10 million (USD 12.1 m) for solar projects under its Small Investments in Agricultural Exploration programme.

Solar services provider Greencells has actually created a joint venture with Italian developer Renewable Consulting to establish a 350MWp solar project portfolio in Pugila.

BayWa r.e. and also its Dutch subsidiary GroenLeven have actually increased an agrophotovoltaic setup in the Netherlands to help protect fruit from hailstorm, heavy rainfall as well as severe warmth.

Enel Green Power has started a brand-new programme to explore just how to effectively integrate cultivatable and also pastoral farming tasks together with large-scale solar PV projects.

You might not have realised this, but there’s a group of hackers out there without whom you wouldn’t be able to put food on the table. They hack under the blazing sun and pouring rain, and have been doing it for thousands of years. Known more commonly as farmers, their creative problem solving skills with whatever is lying around can be absolutely jaw dropping. [Andrew Mans] is one such individual. He built a solar powered weeding tractor that uses human labour to do the actual weeding.

Fraunhofer ISE in Germany was one of the first to experiment with combining solar and farming on the same land. Its early research found doing so increases the productivity of the land significantly — up to 60% or more in some cases.