agrivoltaics

Interest in agrivoltaics (agriPV) in the US has started to grow among several developers PV Tech spoke to at the RE+ solar and storage trade event in Las Vegas last week.

As the world's population distribution changes, so too does its energy needs. One solution could be the emerging field of urban agrivoltaics.

BlueWave has raised US$91 million in new funds to support five solar agrivoltaic projects in the US state of Massachusetts.

BlueWave's 4.2MW Rockport agrivoltaic project in Maine could be one of the clearest examples of an effective solar agrivoltaic project.

Europe has the potential to deploy 51TW of agriculture-paired solar PV, or agrivoltaics, according to research published in the Progress in Photovoltaics journal earlier this year.

Tom Kenning looks at the rise of solar power in Texas, a US state better known for its role in the oil and gas industry, where a beneficial tax regime and an abundance of project land work in favour of building out solar power generation.

Renewable energy developer Hive Energy will sell 200MW worth of Italian agrivoltaic PV projects to GreenIT, a renewable energy joint venture between Italian energy provider Plenitude and investor CDP Equity.

The Dutch solar trade body Holland Solar has called for the government to reverse its decision to limit PV deployments on agricultural land.  

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released US$45 million in funding to support domestic solar manufacturing and dual-use PV projects, US$18 million of which is issued under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Chinese solar company Huasun has launched its latest series of N-type silicon-based heterojunction solar cells.