AGRISOL

AGRISOL supports the deployment of AGRIvoltaics to accelerate the sustainable market uptake of SOLar energy in agriculture. It is a 36-month project that engages experienced partners across five EU states (Greece, Italy, Spain, Denmark and Poland). The project aims to support at least 30 PV market actors, farmers, farmers’ associations, agribusinesses, etc., in EU countries to overcome existing barriers and viably take up APV systems in their lands.

It starts by analysing framework conditions and agrivoltaics (APV) value chains, and it also engages local stakeholders in co-designing the approach and support actions. Then, it provides a series of demand-driven business, financial and technical support services along with dedicated capacity building programs. In parallel, it develops an APV Stakeholder Engagement Platform hosting tools that facilitate collaboration and knowledge exchange among industry actors and provide credible estimations about APV potential, prospective profits with benefits and APV policy making level across various EU countries and critical factors. Additionally, it improves the societal acceptance of APV amongst farmers and citizens by 25% (or above) through well-tailored awareness-raising campaigns and social impact methodologies.

At the same time, it triggers the development of an enabling environment for the market uptake of APV by formulating relevant policy recommendations at both the national and EU levels and widely disseminating them to more than 100 policymakers. Finally, an Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) monitoring and evaluation framework assesses the performance and impact of all the above, ensuring the long-term sustainability of our solutions and providing us with the intel required to catalyse mutual learning and contribute to creating a guide for replicating our results. Therefore, a power output of 50 MWel is expected by our supported cases/projects, leading to an increased share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption in the target countries and ultimately, saving more than 0.5 million tons of GHG.