GLASS - Greenhouse Living-lab Agrivoltaic Systems in Spain
GLASS Project aims to demonstrate the potential of agrivoltaics, increasing greenhouse crop production, reducing agricultural inputs and producing clean energy, under hot and dry climatic conditions.
With this aim, the project will develop a cost-effective PV greenhouse living-lab in the south of Spain, and experimentally investigate the synergies, environmental impact and economic viability of agrivoltaics.
The project is being developed by AdPVTech, from the University of Jaén, which is leading the project, and IMIDA and JHuete as project collaborators.
Technical info
Localization
37°47’13.9″N; 3°46’27.1″W;
Region of Andalusia, Province of Jaén, Municipality of Jaén, Spain
Cultivation typology
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), pepper (Capsicum annuum) and lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
Sustainable agriculture
Self-consumption for irrigation and power supply of sensors
Photovoltaic system
The PV system consists of 3 separated experimental installations, one of them in Jaén and the other two in Murcia.
Semi-transparent materials of different technologies are studied in each of them, as well as different crops.
The main installation consists of a Photovoltaic system with semi-transparent modules with 54% opacity heterogeneous monocrystalline silicon inside a plastic greenhouse.
Mounting system
Aluminium at a height of 3 meters with a pitch of 30 degrees
Installed capacity
7.2 kW
Monitoring system
Relative Temperature, Relative humidity, CO2 Concentration, Soil moisture, soil temperature, pH, global radiation, PAR
Electricity use
Irrigation and monitoring system (maybe heat resistances and oscillating support grid)
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