AgriPV: Up above the ground so high
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- ✓The government will announce an incentive scheme at the seventh AgriVoltaics World Conference in Delhi on October 21-23.
- ✓This plan includes a dedicated AgriPV component under PM-KUSUM 2.0.
- ✓Many firms now test installing solar panels 18-20 ft above ground, which lets farmers grow crops and use machinery on the same land.
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The government is expected to announce an incentive scheme at the upcoming seventh AgriVoltaics World Conference in Delhi on October 21-23. It has already said that PM-KUSUM 2.0 -- the proposed second phase of the agriculture solarisation programme -- will have a dedicated AgriPV, or agrivoltaics, component.
AgriPV is still at the demonstration and experimentation stage in India. There are more than a dozen pilots, using markedly different configurations, crops and business arrangements. SunSeed, GroSolar, Khare Energy, Jain Irrigation and Sahyadri Farms are among the organisations experimenting with the technology. TERI's recent assessment of the country's AgriPV potential lists SunSeed's 1.4-MW Parbhani installation and Nashik project, and GroSolar and Jain Irrigation pilots, among other projects.
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