Following the success of the Special Workshop on Agrivoltaics organized in the frame of NANOTEXNOLOGY 2022 and ISFOE, in Thessaloniki on 7th of Jul 2022, HOPE-A and LTFN are organizing the AGRIVOLTAICS 2022 Conference in parallel to ICEFPE22. The Event will take place on 12th of October in Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens with Key Speakers from these Emerging Technologies.
European Union set the target to produce 30% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030, although nearly every stage of food supply chain relies on fossil fuel energy. Thus, a higher demand for food production would most certainly mean an increase in fossil fuel use and, as a result, greater greenhouse gas emissions. Agrivoltaics is an emerging field that combines the most innovative Renewable Energy solution of Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics with Agriculture in order to lead a sustainable farming process and crop growth by optimizing the use of arable land.
Agrivoltaics is a sustainable economic model of farming that has strong growth prospects with respect for the environment and is supposed to increase land use efficiency. Indeed, Agri-PV will show a noteworthy growing more than 20GW in 2022 with an increase ratio close to 40%.
In the coming years we expect such Greenhouse and open cultivations to be transformed into sustainable food production units and power plants for self-consumption, and then sale of electricity and grid connected, creating wealth and prosperity in local communities. Thus, not only will it solve the huge energy problems, creating many high-paying jobs and many new young farmers-entrepreneurs, but also it will reduce irrigation needs, water consumption, energy needs and gas emissions, while increasing crop yield.
Topics include:
- Energy Generation and Crop Production in Agriculture practice
- Optimized dual use of land
- Energy Autonomy in Agriculture and Food Production
- Sustainable Solutions to Provide Ecosystem Services
- PV and OPV Panel Technologies for Agrivoltaics
- LEDs and OLEDs for lighting
- Flexible and Printed Electronics Applications (Lighting and Sensing) in Agriculture
- Energy and Crop monitoring and control in hydroponic Greenhouses
- AI Adapted in Agrivoltaics
- Agrivoltaics Environmental Modelling
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Sources (H-RES) for Greenhouses
- Sustainable Agricultural Activity
- Minimizing Landscape and Environment impact
- Off-grid Installations in Remote Locations
- Societal and Environmental impact
- Economics of Agrivoltaics and business models
- Cooling and Shading Effect, Exclusion of harmful UV Radiation in Cultivation
- Overcoming Barriers to give prominence to Agrivoltaics
- Agrivoltaics, a sustainable solution for supporting Ecosystem Services
- Maximize Cultivation & Energy Production with OPVs on the Roof of the Greenhouse
- Protection of the Environment – Circular Economy
- Adjustable Transparency of OPVs, Shading on Plants, Water & Energy Reduction up to 30%
