The evidence shows that well-designed systems can increase combined land-use efficiency, support the UK’s growing solar ambitions and create new opportunities for farms and rural communities. At the same time, the benefits are not automatic…
One landscape. Two essential outputs: productive agriculture and renewable electricity
Agrivoltaics reframes a simple question: should productive land be used for food or for clean power? The best answer is often both. By co-designing photovoltaic arrays around active farming, agrivoltaic systems can keep crops, pasture or horticulture in production while generating renewable electricity from the same site. Reviews describe the approach as a practical response to pressure on food, energy and land systems, while also noting that its value depends on design quality, crop choice and local conditions. [1, 3, 5]