Sustainable Agrivoltaics. Synergies between Renewable Energy and Agriculture to benefit landscape and environment. Second Session.

Agrivoltaics is a crucial solution to achieving the renewable energy generation targets from electric renewables for our country. However-even if the dualism related to land use (for energy or agriculture) is resolved through an effective project-the issue of plant insertion in the landscape remains one of the main barriers to its implementation. The challenge is therefore to reconnect the technical project with the cultural one, and in this innovation can play a key role. While it is true that agrivoltaics is in itself an innovative approach capable of combining renewable energy production with agriculture, offering benefits for both the environment and local communities, the challenge is to implement a sustainable transformation of the landscape through the development and adoption of innovative approaches and solutions that make the value of agrivoltaics tangible to the entire community. So, on the one hand it will have to be assessable and quantifiable for the territories in which it fits, and on the other it will also have to be a shared value, including through the acceptance of the landscape it conforms by those who inhabit it, in a thought and design that reconnects the technical and social dimensions. 
This is a complex challenge, and one that takes a long time for collective thinking, with respect to which we are only taking the first steps.

The session aims to provide a review of the innovative solutions currently available for the development of agrivoltaic systems: data collection and management; development of platforms for monitoring agricultural activity and electricity production, environmental parameters and biodiversity; security systems; and optimization of agrivoltaic system performance. And that's not all, as the meeting also intends to include innovations under the aspect of contracts and business models that foster synergy between the agricultural and photovoltaic worlds.