AgriPV has grown rapidly in recent years from idea to full-scale implementation with hundreds of projects now emerging in countries worldwide.
AgriPV brings a range of benefits including widening the range of crops that can be grown in a given region, reducing irrigation needs, providing protection against extreme weather (hail, frost) and with the introduction of bi-facial panels, AgriPV has even been shown to enable an increase in the yield of certain crop types.
As the AgriPV sector grows from niche to mainstream, it is increasingly important for farmers and invertors to investigate the conditions under which AgriPV works best, as there is a wide range of project design elements that can significantly impact project success, including panel spacing, orientation, panel type, elevation from the ground, mounting structure, the spacing between the rows, as well as the compatibility with various forms of farm equipment.
Perhaps none of these project design elements is most important, however, than the selection of crop (or crops) that will be grown in combination with AgriPV.
This short report provides the first AgriPV ladder that attempts to organize the universe of crops and applications in one coherent picture.