
Operational Group: Synergies of agrovoltaic installations in olive plantations
- Type Operational group
- Status In progress
- Execution 2024 -2025
- Assigned Budget 203.227,00 €
- Scope Autonómico
- Autonomous community Andalucía
- Project website GO AGROVOLTAICA
Agrovoltaics is an innovative technique that implements photovoltaic solar energy alongside crops. This creates synergies that increase crop productivity.
The land's yield generates greater economic benefits, reduces environmental impact, prevents soil desertification, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions, providing clean and affordable energy for the olive grove and its surrounding areas.
Agrovoltaics has emerged as a synergistic opportunity to combine food production and renewable energy. The agricultural sector has the potential to become Andalusia's main energy supplier, given the large expanse of available land and the falling price of solar panels. All of this makes investments in renewable energy a viable and attractive alternative for farmers and cooperatives.
- Documentary phase Coordination and communication between the different components that make up the Operational Group.
- Field or experimental phase The construction of the facility will be a removable structure with foundations in the form of bolts anchored to the ground to avoid permanent constructions or those that interfere with the operations carried out in the olive grove.
- Final project report writing phase.
- Dissemination phase
The AGROVOLTAICA project will develop a demonstration project to evaluate adaptation to high temperatures caused by climate change in olive groves.
It will also analyze the benefits of combining renewable energy sources in olive groves to disseminate and teach the technologies, actions, and methodologies of agrovoltaics, as well as the ecological, social, and economic context that necessitates its expansion.
Continuous monitoring using sensors and data managers will provide results that validate the use of weed-resistant nonwoven bi-layers as a sustainable and transformative product for olive grove management.
- Coordinator/entity name: AZCATEC Technology and Engineering SL
- Postal address: Calle Historiador Juan Manzano, 2 floor 1, module 127
- Coordinator/entity email: inno@azcatec.com
- Telephone: 954122992
- AZCATEC Tecnología e Ingeniería S.L.
- SERVICIOS AGRÍCOLAS FITOCASH, S.L. (administracion@fitocash.es)
- UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE (dirotri@upo.es)
- AZCATEC Tecnología e Ingeniería S.L.