Recording of Thursday, June 20, 2024 | The smarter E Europe | Exhibition Program | Language: English | Duration: 9:29 .
Tuncer Temiz, Sales Manager for Agri-PV at Grid Parity, discusses the company's innovative projects in the Agri-PV sector. These projects blend solar power generation with agricultural practices, offering two primary systems: elevated structures and tracking systems. The Berry PV system supports fruit and vegetable cultivation using double glass modules of varying transparency levels. Field PV is designed for larger plantations or animal housing, featuring up to eight meters of space between rows. Temiz highlights a pioneering project from ten years ago in Egypt involving a 15 kWp installation at Heliopolis University that significantly increased crop yields by enabling multiple harvests per year due to its integration with water pumps powered by solar energy. A similar setup was later implemented in the Wahat Desert. Agri-PV's design focuses on maximizing light penetration to crops while reducing pesticide use and irrigation needs through partial shading provided by semi-transparent modules. Research from Fraunhofer-Ise Institute underscores these benefits, noting improved crop protection against weather extremes and better-tasting grapes due to controlled ripening processes under vine installations. Additionally, tracker systems elevate modules around 2.1 meters high, following the sun throughout the day to optimize electricity yield while maintaining usable space between rows for agriculture. Temiz concludes with an invitation to explore their display booth for more details on these cutting-edge solutions leveraging dual land use—agriculture beneath photovoltaic panels—to enhance sustainability and productivity simultaneously
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Agricultural PV is on the rise - in many European countries, this application, which combines agriculture and PV on the same piece of land, is on the verge of a market breakthrough. The beneficial effects of PV systems on many types of crops as well as dual land use and protecting agricultural activity by avoiding competition for land are some clear advantages. In this session, pioneering agricultural PV companies will present their projects and best practices, demonstrate the profitability of agricultural PV and the benefits of this combination for agriculture and power generation.
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