Empowering Rural Farming: Agrovoltaic Applications for Sustainable Agriculture
ABSTRACT Agrovoltaics, also known as Agri‐PV or AV, is an innovative approach that entails the shared utilization of land for both the production of agricultural commodities and energy generation. This concept has gained immense popularity in recent times owing to its ability to boost income per uni...
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| description | ABSTRACT Agrovoltaics, also known as Agri‐PV or AV, is an innovative approach that entails the shared utilization of land for both the production of agricultural commodities and energy generation. This concept has gained immense popularity in recent times owing to its ability to boost income per unit of land area significantly. The scope of AV systems is quite extensive, as it encompasses solar energy converters and other renewable energy sources like bioenergy. Current strategies for agrovoltaic (AV) in agriculture are the outcome of the gradual development of agroecology and the integration of photovoltaic (PV) power supply into the grid. These approaches could lead to a nearly doubled income per unit area. Without on‐site power supply, reduced chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and on‐site yield processing, AV has the potential to revolutionize large‐scale unmanned precision agriculture and smart farming. These approaches might lead to significant changes in the logistics and value‐added production chain, thereby reducing agriculture's carbon footprint. In the future, it is possible to reduce the cost of AV technology by half by utilizing decommissioned solar panels in the technology and to delay the need for bulk PV recycling by several years. This review presents a different perspective to the common discourse on the topic, by giving special emphasis to the potential to further integrate AV into agriculture, which has the potential to facilitate the resolution of relevant legal disputes over the use of AV. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-856c1a3fadf14014a8fb900b4cd4ef682025-01-21T11:38:24ZengWileyEnergy Science & Engineering2050-05052025-01-01131355910.1002/ese3.2017Empowering Rural Farming: Agrovoltaic Applications for Sustainable AgricultureManish Kumar Singla0Jyoti Gupta1Anupma Gupta2Murodbek Safaraliev3Hamed Zeinoddini‐Meymand4Ramesh Kumar5Department of Biosciences, Saveetha School of Engineering Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences Chennai IndiaSchool of Engineering and Technology K.R. Mangalam University Gurugram Haryana IndiaDepartment of Interdisciplinary Courses in Engineering, Chitkara University Institute of Engineering & Technology Chitkara University Rajpura Punjab IndiaDepartment of Automated Electrical Systems Ural Federal University Yekaterinburg RussiaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate University of Advanced Technology Kerman IranDepartment of Interdisciplinary Courses in Engineering, Chitkara University Institute of Engineering & Technology Chitkara University Rajpura Punjab IndiaABSTRACT Agrovoltaics, also known as Agri‐PV or AV, is an innovative approach that entails the shared utilization of land for both the production of agricultural commodities and energy generation. This concept has gained immense popularity in recent times owing to its ability to boost income per unit of land area significantly. The scope of AV systems is quite extensive, as it encompasses solar energy converters and other renewable energy sources like bioenergy. Current strategies for agrovoltaic (AV) in agriculture are the outcome of the gradual development of agroecology and the integration of photovoltaic (PV) power supply into the grid. These approaches could lead to a nearly doubled income per unit area. Without on‐site power supply, reduced chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and on‐site yield processing, AV has the potential to revolutionize large‐scale unmanned precision agriculture and smart farming. These approaches might lead to significant changes in the logistics and value‐added production chain, thereby reducing agriculture's carbon footprint. In the future, it is possible to reduce the cost of AV technology by half by utilizing decommissioned solar panels in the technology and to delay the need for bulk PV recycling by several years. This review presents a different perspective to the common discourse on the topic, by giving special emphasis to the potential to further integrate AV into agriculture, which has the potential to facilitate the resolution of relevant legal disputes over the use of AV.https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.2017agricultureagrophotovoltaicagrovoltaicphotovoltaicunmanned vehicles |
| spellingShingle | Manish Kumar Singla Jyoti Gupta Anupma Gupta Murodbek Safaraliev Hamed Zeinoddini‐Meymand Ramesh Kumar Empowering Rural Farming: Agrovoltaic Applications for Sustainable Agriculture Energy Science & Engineering agriculture agrophotovoltaic agrovoltaic photovoltaic unmanned vehicles |
| title | Empowering Rural Farming: Agrovoltaic Applications for Sustainable Agriculture |
| title_full | Empowering Rural Farming: Agrovoltaic Applications for Sustainable Agriculture |
| title_fullStr | Empowering Rural Farming: Agrovoltaic Applications for Sustainable Agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering Rural Farming: Agrovoltaic Applications for Sustainable Agriculture |
| title_short | Empowering Rural Farming: Agrovoltaic Applications for Sustainable Agriculture |
| title_sort | empowering rural farming agrovoltaic applications for sustainable agriculture |
| topic | agriculture agrophotovoltaic agrovoltaic photovoltaic unmanned vehicles |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.2017 |
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