AgriPV system with climate, water and light spectrum control for safe, healthier and improved crops production
What is PV4Plants?
PV4Plants is a Horizon Europe funded project whose aim is to become a strong influencer of the decarbonisation of the agricultural and energy sector. The project has a series of key advantages which can improve the competitiveness of both sectors:
- Improve land efficiency
- Renewable local energy generation and direct consumption(minimizing losses, reduction of agricultural energy dependency and energy poverty)
- Creation of local social-financial opportunities(higher turnover per hectare of cultivated land, new income potential, creation of rural jobs and therefore mitigation of depopulation problem in rural areas)
PV4Plants in numbers
- 25.000 €/year saved in electricity bills
- 50 new jobs
- >0.5% efficiency(compared to currently installed PVs)
- 117.000 kWh/year produced
- 35t/year greenhouse gas emissions avoided in the three pilots
- 10%-20% reduced water evaporation(compared to the reference field)