Agricultural Benefits of Vertical Solar
Vertical agrivoltaic systems eliminate the false choice between energy security and food security. The same land can produce both renewable energy and agricultural crops, maintaining 95-100% of traditional yields.
Note: Agricultural productivity based on vertical agrivoltaic configurations (10-12m row spacing) that allow full machinery access between rows. Sources: Riaz et al. (2021), IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics; Next2Sun field study data.
The False Choice Eliminated
Traditional solar creates an unnecessary conflict between energy security and food security. Vertical agrivoltaic systems deliver both renewable energy and continued agricultural productivity on the same land, while reducing grid infrastructure costs by hundreds of millions of pounds.
The UK does not need to choose between feeding its people and powering its economy. VBPV systems allow both, at lower total system cost.