Today we continue with a preview of the plenary talks scheduled for Wednesday, 25th September.
The morning will feature two sessions: one from 8:30 to 10:00 titled “PV Everywhere”, and the second from 10:30 to 12:30, which encompasses two topics. The first three presentations are under the title “Performance and Reliability”, and another three under the title “Thin Films and Tandems”

The Session title “PV Everywhere” already points to the scope of the next four plenaries, which will be about three promising ways to utilise existing space for PV generation: Agrivoltaics, Building Integration, and floating PV.

We start with an exciting introduction in the field of Agrivoltaics. We invited the French company Sun’Agri which has been commercialising professional tracking systems optimised for controlled shadowing of agricultural plants for the past five years. In the presentation 4CP.1.1 “Dynamic Agrivoltaics: An Agronomical tool to Protect Crops from Climate Change”, the focus will be on the agricultural benefits of such systems, by controlled shadowing in very sunny fields: soil retention, water collection, reduction of evaporation for instance. Sun’Agri certainly hasthe experience to optimise these benefits, and the plenary talk seems to be of interests to PV experts who thought that Agrivoltaics is just another land-grabbing idea. In fact, a project of Sun’Agri recently faced resistance from the local population, and we hope that the presentation gives insight into how such conflicts can be resolved.

The second plenary highlights the huge potential of ….. Read More

Plenary Summary by
Heinz Ossenbrink
Former European Commission Joint Research Centre

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