APV-RESOLA – Innovation group Agrophotovoltaic: Contribution to a resource-efficient land use

  • Project team:

    Rösch, Christine (Project leader); Nora Weinberger, Daniel Ketzer, Stefanie Seitz

  • Funding:

    Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

  • Start date:

    2015

  • End date:

    2020

  • Project partners:

    Fraunhofer Institut für Solare Energiesysteme (ISE), Universität Hohenheim, BayWa r.e. Solar Projects GmbH, Hofgemeinschaft Heggelbach, Regionalverband Bodensee Oberschwaben (RVBO)

  • Research group:

    Sustainable Bioeconomy

Project description

The "Energiewende" (energy transition) and the increasing use of technologies to produce energy from sun, wind or biomass lead to a changing cultural and natural landscape. The cultivation of energy crops and prospectively also open space photovoltaics (PV) require large areas and thus increase the demand for agricultural areas that are limited in their availability. The arising land use conflicts result in higher lease costs and societal conflicts. In order to reduce the land use conflicts, Agrophotovoltaics (APV), a specific system technology that combines photosynthetic production and PV power production, offers a promising concept that allows pursuing agricultural cultivation below PV-plants. The resulting double harvesting reduces the competition over rare fertile land between agriculture and energy industry. APV-projects can support the transition towards a decentralized Energiewende and strengthen the local creation of added value and thus rural development. Analogously to rooftop PV, this technology offers participation schemes for farmers, communities and SMEs.

The development of an innovation concept is a key issue for the APV-innovation group that consists of members from all project partners. The innovation concept will be complemented by qualification measures to support the group members at developing a sustainable innovation management. A steady exchange between different innovation groups funded by BMBF for a sustainable land management will be an important part of this project.

The model region Bodensee-Oberschwaben turns into a Living lab where innovation processes and management for a sustainable land management will be applied, analyzed and developed further. To support this target, a pilot scale test plant shall be installed in Heggelbach to enable agricultural and social science studies.

One of the tasks at ITAS is to include non-scientific actors, namely decision makers, potential users and citizens, into the innovation process. The conditions and possible barriers for the market introduction and diffusion of this technology shall be analyzed using this approach. As a part of this, two citizen workshops will be realized, one prior to the realization of the test plant, one afterwards to analyze how the physical experience of the APV-technology might affect its appraisement. The results feed innovation promoting recommendations for policymakers, service providers and technology developer. Further, an innovation concept for a sustainable land use in the model region will be developed according to these results.

Project website: APV-RESOLA

Short film on the APV pilot scale test plant and on backgrounds of the technology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJnXSzvy--8

Publikationen


2022
Book Chapters
Trommsdorff, M.; Dhal, I. S.; Özdemir, Ö. E.; Ketzer, D.; Weinberger, N.; Rösch, C.
Agrivoltaics: solar power generation and food production
2022. Solar Energy Advancements in Agriculture and Food Production Systems. Ed.: S. Gorjian, 159–210, Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-89866-9.00012-2 
Reports/Preprints
Trommsdorff, M.; Gruber, S.; Keinath, T.; Hopf, M.; Hermann, C.; Schönberger, F.; Högy, P.; Zikeli, S.; Ehmann, A.; Weselek, A.; Bodmer, U.; Rösch, C.; Ketzer, D.; Weinberger, N.; Schindele, S.; Vollprecht, J.
Agri-Photovoltaik: Chance für Landwirtschaft und Energiewende : Ein Leitfaden für Deutschland
2022. Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme (ISE) 
2021
Presentations
Ketzer, D.; Parodi, O.
Participatory Technology Development with Stakeholders, Living Labs and Real-world Labs as part of KTT
2021. Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT) - PMT4 workshop on good practices and challenges in knowledge and technology transfer (2021), Online, April 15, 2021 
2020
Reports/Preprints
Trommsdorff, M.; Gruber, S.; Keinath, T.; Hopf, M.; Hermann, C.; Schönberger, F.; Högy, P.; Zikeli, S.; Ehmann, A.; Weselek, A.; Bodmer, U.; Rösch, C.; Ketzer, D.; Weinberger, N.; Schindele, S.; Vollprecht, J.
AGRI-Photovoltaik: Chance für Landwirtschaft und Energiewende : Ein Leitfaden für Deutschland : Oktober 2020
2020. Fraunhofer ISE 
2019
Conference Papers
Rösch, C.; Hildebrand, J.; Venghaus, S.; Witte, K.; Gölz, S.
Transdisziplinäre Ansätze zur Erforschung gesellschaftlicher Akzeptanz
2019. Energy Research for Future – Forschung für die Herausforderungen der Energiewende : Beiträge zur FVEE-Jahrestagung 2019. Red.: P. Szczepanski, 11–14, ForschungsVerbund Erneuerbare Energien (FVEE) 
Presentations
Ketzer, D.; Rösch, C.; Weinberger, N.
APV-RESOLA - Technologieentwicklung mit Bürger- und Stakeholderbeteiligung
2019. Innovationslandschaften. Impulse aus Wissenschaft und Praxis für Landschaften der Zukunft (2019), Berlin, Germany, February 14–15, 2019 
Rösch, C.
Transdisziplinäre Ansätze zur Erforschung gesellschaftlicher Akzeptanz
2019. FVEE-Jahrestagung “Energy Research for Future - Forschung für die Herausforderungen der Energiewende" (2019), Berlin, Germany, October 22–23, 2019 
Rösch, C.
Technology to reduce trade-offs between sustainable food and energy production - The case study of agrophotovoltaics
2019. OECD-Workshop “Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research” (2019), Paris, France, May 24, 2019 
Rösch, C.; Ketzer, D.; Weinberger, N.
Co-Design Agrophotovoltaik - ein transdisziplinärer Ansatz zur Technikentwicklung
2019. APV-RESOLA Abschlusskonferenz (2019), Berlin, Germany, May 6, 2019 
Schmid, T.; Trommsdorff, M.; Bopp, G.; Ehmann, A.; Franke, W.; Gimbel, E.; Högy, P.; Ketzer, D.; Obergfell, T.; Reyer, F.; Rösch, C.; Schindele, S.; Schlaak, A.; Sladek, S.; Stillahn, T.; Weinberger, N.; Weselek, A.
AgroPhotovoltaik: Beitrag zur ressourceneffizienten Landnutzung (APV-RESOLA)
2019. Abschlusskonferenz der Innovationsgruppen für ein nachhaltiges Landmanagement (2019), Berlin, Germany, February 14–15, 2019 
2017
Presentations
Ketzer, D.; Weinberger, N.; Rösch, C.; Seitz, S. B.
The role of inter- and transdisciplinary projects in technology assessment - Chances and challenges of closeness to politics
2017. 3rd European Technology Assessment Conference, Cork, IRL, May 17-19, 2017 
Rösch, C.; Ketzer, D.; Weinberger, N.
Citizens’ view on renewable energy technologies - insights into the complexity of the energy transition in rural areas
2017. 3rd European Technology Assessment Conference, Cork, IRL, May 17-19, 2017 
2016
Presentations
Ketzer, D.
Potential of agrophotovoltaic systems to reduce land use competition between biomass and power production
2016. Young Researchers Meeting on Multifunctional Landscapes for Food Security, Livelihoods and the Environment, Göteborg, S, June 7-8, 2016 
Ketzer, D.
Agrophotovoltaik - Kombinierte Produktion von Biomasse und Photovoltaik zur Reduzierung von Flächennutzungskonflikten zwischen Biomasse- und Stromproduktion
2016. 24 Stunden Ressourceneffizienz : Nachwuchsforscherkongress, Hochschule Pforzheim, 2.März 2016 
Rösch, C.; Ketzer, D.; Weinberger, N.
APV-RESOLA - Technologieentwicklung mit Bürgerbeteiligung
2016. Eröffnung des APV-Kraftwerks, Hofgemeinschaft Heggelbach am Bodensee, 18.September 2016 

Contact

Dr. Christine Rösch
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)
P.O. Box 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Germany

Tel.: +49 721 608-22704
E-mail