Agrivoltaics

The Co-Location of Farming and Photovoltaics
Challenges that Farmers have to face

Climate change has a tremendous impact on modern farming:

Temperature Rise
Water Shortage
Soil Erosion
Declining crop yields
Decreasing amount of arable land
Falling nutritional values

Those challenges collide with two global trends:

A rising world population
The demand for land to build renewable energy systems on.

At first sight it looks like a dilemma: Agriculture vs. decarbonization, food vs. clean energy. But there is a way to combine both:

Agrivoltaics - The integration of solar PV systems into farming.

Agrivoltaics turn a dilemma into an opportunity to increase crop yield by advancing the transformation into a sustainable energy supply at a big scale. They offer multiple advantages for farmers:

Crop Growing and Production of green electricity on the same land
Potential to increase crop yield
Providing shade and creating a microclimate
Decreasing the demand for irrigation and manuring
Higher efficiency in land utilization
Sunzaun - Vertical Solar for Agriculture

Using land for farming and energy production by applying bifacial module technology is the approach of Sunzaun. There are multiple ways to integrate solar PV into farmland. The main difference between Sunzaun and other agrivoltaic systems is the vertical east-west orientation of bifacial modules. The design of Sunzaun has specific benefits when integrated into farmland:

Farmers can move their harvesters between sunzaun rows
Shade for crops and workers
Workers don't have to bend down when harvesting next to the Sunzaun rows
Use as a fence for livestock
Energy production in the morning and afternoon

Contact us to see how your agricultural business can benefit from Sunzaun!