Agrisolar Europe

🎉Today is a great day for a nature-positive energy transition!   This morning, EU Environment Ministers rubberstamped the landmark EU Nature Restoration Law, marking a pivotal step forward for one of the Green Deal’s most crucial files.✅   Lina D., SolarPower Europe’s Policy Advisor for Sustainability, celebrated the achievement:   "In the context of accelerating climate change and #biodiversity loss, we believe in the urgency of nature restoration. Therefore, we welcome the adoption of the long-awaited Nature Restoration Law.    #Solar and nature work together, going beyond climate change mitigation to also protect biodiversity and restore vital ecosystems. The Nature Restoration Law can provide the right framework for stimulating a regenerative economy and promoting solar technologies compatible with nature.”🌿   📝Read here for the full statement: https://lnkd.in/euSJeFYk   This news comes at a perfect time, as SolarPower Europe has today joined forces with 400 organisations to urge EU leaders to reaffirm the Green Deal as a strategic priority in the next EU mandate.💪   Read the full joint statement here👇 https://lnkd.in/e6NP6Cze #GreenDealforEU #NatureRestorationLaw 📸Photo: Alight

In Ireland, farmers spend 50% of their costs on electricity. ⚡ 🚜 Seán Kelly MEP says solutions like #solar and #AgriPV can make a huge difference! ☀ For SolarPower Europe's Shine On Policycast, Deputy CEO Dries Acke visited the European Parliament to speak with MEPs about their time in office, ahead of the #EUElections2024. Make sure to #UseYourVote on 6-9 June!

This week marks #EUGreenWeek 🌍   This year's campaign aims to stimulate an EU-wide conversation around water today and in the future. 💧   Did you know that #agrisolar can play a significant role in reducing water usage in farming?   A great example is Amarenco's solar greenhouses in France, where the shading of the greenhouses reduces the need for water by 20-30% due to reduced evaporation.   In addition to this, the crops are protected from a heavy frost experienced during winter.   Check out more examples in SolarPower Europe's Agrisolar Best Practice Guidelines, and view our digital map to see where agrisolar projects are located across Europe 👉 https://lnkd.in/eUv5QBQS

🆕 We have just launched our new Agrisolar Digital Map! 🗺 Discover over 200 #agrisolar projects across Europe, totaling a combined capacity of over 2.8 GW ☀ 🚜 The map highlights a wide range of technologies from rooftop PV on agricultural buildings, to #AgriPV installations combined with crops, livestock and biodiversity measures. 🌾 Chair of SolarPower Europe's Land Use and Permitting Workstream and Group Agrisolar expert Amarenco, Eva Vandest, stated: "With this digital map providing an overview of agrisolar installations across Europe, we aim to illustrate the current development of this market and enable tracking of its progress. It's evident that various types of installations have been built in accordance with SolarPower Europe guidelines, fostering a wide array of solutions to address the diverse needs of the agricultural sector." Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e8MWSJxK Do you have agrisolar projects you would like to showcase on the map? Get in touch!

We're voting, are you? 💙💛   Tomorrow, 9 May, marks #EuropeDay; a day to celebrate our shared value of democracy.   With the #EUElections2024 drawing closer, we've joined with WindEurope, RE-Source Platform, European Heat Pump Association, Renewable Hydrogen Coalition, Energy Storage Coalition, and EASE - The European Association for Storage of Energy to remind you that your vote makes a difference for #renewables and the #energytransition! 📩   Make sure to #UseYourVote on 6-9 June 2024.   Register here for our joint webinar on 21 May 'Mobilising the clean energy workforce to vote in the EU Elections' 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNkvUDwF

"The benefits of agrisolar are manifold" 🙌 Hear it from Seán Kelly MEP himself - agrisolar has many wonderful benefits for people and planet: 🌾 Enhance crop yield 🐑 Provide shade for farm animals 🐝 Protect and restore biodiversity 💧 Reduce water usage on farms 💰 Create additional revenue streams for farmers Watch Seán Kelly MEP's full address to attendees of SolarPower Europe's #SolarPowerSummit last month, here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e75th-Fr #SolarPV #AgriPV #Agrisolar #Solar #Farming

Mission Agrisolar 🚀 Harvesting the sun ☀ During SolarPower Europe's SolarPower Summit on 4-5 March, policymakers, solar sector and farming representatives came together to discuss #agrisolar. Seán Kelly MEP delivered a video message where he highlighted the benefits of agrisolar for the farming sector, as well as people and planet. European Commission Policy Advisor Tsjerk Terpstra highlighted: “There are a lot of win- win situations when you install #AgriPV. In the EU Solar Startegy there is a specific mention of Agri-PV and the benefits it can have.” Read more about the discussion 👇 Eva Vandest Amarenco Alexandra Sombsthay Akuo Patrick PAGANI COPA COGECA Lina D.

Today is #WorldCleanEnergyDay 🙌 Agrisolar is a perfect solution for combining clean energy and food production 🤝 The dual-land use solution allows energy to be generated from the sun, while having a positive impact on the land: 🌾 Agrisolar can protect crops from harsh weather and even improve crop yield 💧 Agrisolar can reduce water evaporation meaning less water used in agriculture 🐝 Agrisolar can help protect and even promote biodiversity Read more about our trip to visit BayWa r.e. EMEA's Agrisolar farm in the Netherlands with Stephan Schindele ☀ 👉 https://lnkd.in/epsw6SAV #Agrisolar #CleanEnergy #Solar #AgriPV

SolarPower Europe's Agrisolar Best Practice Guidelines have made it all the way to Japan! 🗾 SolarPower Europe published the second version of the Agrisolar Best Practices report in June 2023, providing guidance for the deployment of sustainable Agri-PV practices for solar industry stakeholders. The report recognises the positive impacts of agrisolar on the environment, socioeconomy, and society: decarbonisation, energy security, sustainable dual land use, nature preservation, soil health, and food security.    “That stimulated us to introduce it to the Japanese audience where people only focus on the negative aspects of photovoltaics, while the government appraises nuclear power as a part of its own green transformation strategy,” – tetsunari iida, Chairperson of Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies   "We are pleased to see our Agrisolar Best Practices Guidelines report making its way across the globe. The translation of this guide will support the roll-out of Agrisolar in Japan, by sharing key learnings from the technology's development in Europe." – Lina D., Policy Advisor for Sustainability, SolarPower Europe. #Agrisolar #AgriPV #Solar #Agriculture #SustainableAgriculture  

🔍 Zooming in on the Agrisolar landscape in Croatia. We recently interviewed Maya Pokrovac, Director of Renewable Energy Sources of Croatia about recent developments that will help boost Agrisolar roll out in the country 🚜 ☀ "According to the European Environment Agency (EEA) report, Croatia is one of the three European countries that suffer the highest cumulative share of damages from extreme weather and climate conditions, which decreases the gross national product (GNP) 📉 . Between 2013 and 2019, droughts, floods and hailstorms caused damages to agriculture worth a total of €1.2 billion. Dry periods and rising temperatures 🌡 are serious challenges for Croatian farmers and agriculture. Since Croatia is a mainly rural country, there is a huge interest from smaller farmers in agrisolar in order to be competitive with farmers who possess large plantations." Read the full interview and access the Croatian translation of our Agrisolar Best Practice Guidelines here 👇 https://lnkd.in/dKK-rCPM #Agrisolar #Croatia #AgriPV