Agrivoltaism "Green Swindle" or Real "Energy Farmers"?
This technique combines agricultural production and photovoltaic energy production on the same plot, consists of placing photovoltaic louvres above certain crops.
The installation of photovoltaic panels on crops has arisen due to population growth. Indeed, one of the significant challenges of this growth is to produce enough food to feed the planet. In addition, the increase in the population then induces an increase in the production of electricity on the earth, preferably green electricity, in a logic of sustainable development.
The rise of agrivoltaism in the Asian notion of agrivoltaicism first appeared in 1981 in the mouth of Adolf Goetzberger and Armin Zastrow. For the first time, they studied
