Evaluation of the first agrivoltaic system in Sweden

Installation and maintenance of components and sensors at below 0 degrees Celsius. It’s not cold! It’s not cold!🥶 With Sultan Tekie, PhD candidate and Karl-Henrik Aulin

Arash Khosravi is an agricultural engineer and postdoctoral researcher with the agrivoltaics team at Mälardalen University. He works in the 'Solbruk i Skåne,' 'SOLVE,' and 'Opti-APV' projects, with special focus on the crop experiments. His research focuses on assessing crop responses to various shading conditions caused by different agrivoltaic systems.

A new article from pv magazine Global talks about us, in particular about the review paper on spectrally selective solar cells led by Silvia Ma Lu, with Stefano Amaducci, Matthew Haworth, Carl Hägglund, Shiva Gorjian, Tao MA, Sebastian Zainali, and me (Pietro Elia Campana). One of the main messages of the review paper was to create standards for reporting on the performance of these solar technologies. Thanks to Emiliano Bellini for boosting our research activities!! More info at the following link: https://lnkd.in/dwYaRY4t #agrivoltaic #research #collaboration

We go global again!!! pv magazine Global has published an article about us talking about one of our most recent publication on the effects of vertical agrivoltaic systems on barley. A big hurrah to Silvia Ma Lu and Sebastian Zainali who led the paper! Thanks to Emiliano Bellini for the opportunity to disseminate the results beyond the research community! The article in PV magazine Global can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dtq4ZRhd with link to the original research article. The 2023 summer was marked out by contrasting extremes with dry and hot weather in June, and heavy rainfall in July and August. We observed that the mean barley yield of the samples in all the different areas of the vertical agrivoltaic system was higher than the one in the control area, but not statistically significant. This somehow validate the original hypothesis of the group that agrivoltaic system can act as a climate adaptation technology for agriculture even at high latitudes. The findings support APV system research, for instance, for crop model validation, since all the data gathered during the experiment have been released open-source. #research #agrivoltaic #collaboration

A new article in Ny Teknik, Sweden's largest technology magazine, talks about us! More info here: https://lnkd.in/dGDMycec #agrivoltaic #research #policy #technology

Today was the last sampling day of the year: broccoli under the spectrally selective solar cells. Now our colleagues at Mälardalen University will enjoy our broccoli grown under blue and red wavelenghts. Great efforts from Silvia Ma Lu, Arash Khosravi, Amirhossein Nik Zad, and Gabriele Sortino!!! #research #broccoli #agrivoltaic #collaboration

Today it is time for broccoli harvest under the spectrally selective solar cells project!!! With Silvia Ma Lu, Arash Khosravi, Gabriele Sortino, Xiaolin Wang, and Palle Hedlund. #agrivoltaic #research #collaboration

Yesterday we did the LAI measurements and oats sampling in Solvallen with help from visiting students from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy: Amirhossein Nikzad and Gabriele Sortino. Everything has been managed by our agronomist Dr. “capo” Arash Khosravi with fundamental support from Mohammed G., Tekai eddine khalil Zidane, and Sultan Tekie, PhD candidate. A lot of hard work, great collaboration, and a lot of fun too!!! #agrivoltaics #research #internationalcollaboration

Great course yesterday from Scanmatic to learn more about dataloggers for agrivoltaic applications with Marius Brenden, and Anders Bergdahl giving presentations and advanced training!!! With Sultan Tekie, PhD candidate, Mohammed G., Sebastian Zainali, and Silvia Ma Lu !!! #agrivoltaic #research #data

A big hurrah to Silvia Ma Lu for leading our latest publication “Wavelength-selective solar photovoltaic systems to enhance spectral sharing in agrivoltaics”, in Joule (Cell Press). The review paper summarizes the current state-of-the-art of wavelength-selective solar photovoltaic cells, that are solar cells engineered to transmit to crop only the wavelengths necessary for plant growth while converting the remaining unused wavelengths into electricity.   The study proposes a classification of wavelength-selective solar photovoltaic technologies, discusses future prospects, highlights performance metrics, and suggests best practices for future experimental activities.   This review paper has been the outcome of a national and international collaboration with Stefano Amaducci, Matthew Haworth, Carl Hägglund, Shiva Gorjian, Tao MA, Sebastian Zainali, and Pietro Elia Campana. It has been supported by funding from Sweco / J. Gust. Richert stiftelse and Swedish Energy Agency through the project SOLVE - Solar Electricity Research Centre, Sweden.   The paper can be read and downloaded at the publisher web page: https://lnkd.in/d_ZZfKAq #agrivoltaics #research #collaboration