Agrivoltaics Potential in Romania - A Symbiosis Between Agriculture and Energy

Journal Article: Agrivoltaics Potential in Romania - A Symbiosis Between Agriculture and Energy

Abstract

The newest renewable energy targets set up by the latest EU Directives, correlated with the targets set by the National Energy Strategy generate the need for significant land surfaces to develop photovoltaic powerplant projects. Meanwhile, as the climate change and various geo- political factors generate additional stress on the food production world-wide, the need to maintain and even increase the available agricultural land becomes more stringent. The solution is to integrate both needs – renewable electricity and agricultural production – on the same land-surface. The concept of agricultural-photovoltaics (agrivoltaics) has been proven in a number of limited countries in Europe. The paper proposes a technical and economic potential analysis of developing an agrivoltaic project in Romania.

Contains a model

Contains novel data

Topics

Market Assessments

Technical potential

Economics

Techno-economic analyses

Agrivoltaic Activity: Crop Production

Authors: Cristian GHEORGHIU, Mircea SCRIPCARIU, Gabriela SAVA, Miruna GHEORGHIU and Alexandra-Lidia DINA

Published Journal

EMERG, 2022

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.37410/EMERG.2022.3.09
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Citation

Cristian GHEORGHIU, Mircea SCRIPCARIU, Gabriela SAVA, Miruna GHEORGHIU, Alexandra-Lidia DINA. 2022. Agrivoltaics Potential in Romania - A Symbiosis Between Agriculture and Energy. EMERG. 8(3):128-136.