Associating food crops and solar PVon the same land area which is referred as agrivoltaic systems (also denoted as Agrophotovoltaics, APV) (Dinesh and Pearce 2016; Santra et al. 2017) is among the most developing techniques in agriculture that attract significant researches attention in the past ten years (Fig. 1 a).
One possible solution that can mitigate the negative impact of photovoltaic power plants on land use is the so-called agrivoltaic. Agrivoltaic is a type of solar system that allows one to combine two activities: agricultural activity and energy production.
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Indeed, existing studies on agrivoltaics systems show that shading from solar panels can protect thermally stressed crops 56, particularly in regions where temperatures exceed 25 °C (ref. 57; Fig. 3c).
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