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Agrivoltaic system (AVS) is a conceptual and innovative approach to combining agricultural production with renewable energy. During profound disruption and instability to the energy sectors globally caused by pandemic Covid-19, renewables, especially solar power, are forecast to continue to grow when the world starts to recover from this pandemic. Concurrently, food security issues have become worse and will continue to escalate due to a significant agricultural land decrease. Thus, this conceptual paper describes the core issues of challenges and opportunities for effective dissemination of dual land-use systems (AVS) as an innovative approach and a win-win solution for both productions. The definition and classification of AVS technology, the specification and modification of PV structure for AVS system, and agricultural experts’ concern are discussed in this paper as a suggestion for refinement of AVS technology to increase the rate of adoption by players in the industry. Building renewable energy and agriculture sustainable solutions would ultimately increase global land-use efficiency, minimize agriculture destruction, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. Informed and organized efforts to disseminate further this innovation strategy are required if increasing demands for renewables and food security are to be met simultaneously.
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Abidin, M.A.Z., Mahyuddin, M.N., Zainuri, M.A.A.M. (2022). Agrivoltaic Systems: An Innovative Approach to Combine Agricultural Production and Solar Photovoltaic System. In: Mahyuddin, N.M., Mat Noor, N.R., Mat Sakim, H.A. (eds) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing and Power Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 829. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8129-5_119
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