Agrivoltaic Systems Design and Assessment: A Critical Review, and a Descriptive Model towards a Sustainable Landscape Vision (Three-Dimensional Agrivoltaic Patterns)

As an answer to the increasing demand for photovoltaics as a key element in energy transition strategy of many countries—which entails land use issues, well concerns regarding landscape transformation, biodiversity, ecosystems and human well-being—new approaches market segments have emerged that consider integrated perspectives. Among these, agrivoltaics is emerging very promising allowing benefits food–energy (and water) nexus. Demonstrative projects are developing worldwide, experience with varied design solutions suitable scale up commercial being gathered based primarily on efficiency considerations; nevertheless, it unquestionable increase size, from demonstration scale, attention has be paid ecological impacts associated specific choices, namely those related transformation issues. This study reviews analyzes technological spatial options become available date implementing rigorous, comprehensive analysis most updated knowledge field, proposes thorough methodology performance parameters enable us define main attributes system trans-disciplinary perspective.