Agri-Food-Energy Park (Agri FEe)
The Agri-Food-Energy Park (Agri FEe) serves as a pioneering technology demonstrator, integrating cutting-edge photovoltaic (PV) and agricultural technologies. This facility acts as a collaborative hub, enabling direct interaction among stakeholders from the PV industry, energy providers, agriculture, horticulture, regulatory authorities, and policymakers.
Covering an area of two hectares, Agri FEe features diverse PV installations—including south-oriented PV, PV trackers, and greenhouse systems—designed to support various PV module types.
Overview
Agri FEe acts as a technology demonstrator integrating novel PV and agricultural technologies. The facility enables direct interaction with multiple stakeholders from PV-industry, energy providers, agri- and horticulture, regulatory authorities and in politics advice.
Detailed Description
Purpose: On an area of about two hectares the Agri-Horti-PV systems offers different substructures and installations (e.g., south-oriented PV, PV trackers, greenhouse systems) suitable to integrate and test various types of PV modules. In addition, high resolution, fully automated plant phenotyping systems are integrated to study the effect of PV on plant growth directly.
Unique Features
- High resolution fully automated plant phenotyping system to study plant growth
- Flexible water management system including rainwater harvesting
- Environmental sensor setup (e.g. irradiation, humidity, wind speed, soil humidity
- High resolution PV measurement setup
- Battery pack for electricity self-consumption
Capabilities
- South oriented Horti-PV with 2000 m2 active research area and drive through hight of 2,5 m
- East-West Agri-PV Tracking with 2000 m2 active research area and drive through height of 4,5 m
- PV Poly-Tunnel with 100 m2 active research area
- Installed PV power 300 KWp
- 900 installed PV panels
- 30 KWh battery capacity
- 1 cm positioning precision for phenotyping measurements
- 2 min time resolution for PV measurements (single I-V curves)
Further information
Additional Information:
https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/forschung/energie/agri-pv
Contact Person
Institute for Plant Sciences,
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Dr. Matthias Meier-Grüll
ma.meier(at)fz-juelich.de