On the light intensity value under photovoltaic arrays for agrivoltaic integration

The biggest problem in agriculture sector across Malaysia recently, evolve around the limitation of agri-land especially in the urban or sub-urban area where the basic infrastructures have already been in place. Most of agri-land has been converted to industrial land based on increasing demand and f...

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Main Authors: Ya'acob, Mohammad Effendy, Othman, Noor Fadzlinda, Nazri, Nur Aisha
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: IEEE 2022
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/44223/
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author Ya'acob, Mohammad Effendy
Othman, Noor Fadzlinda
Nazri, Nur Aisha
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Othman, Noor Fadzlinda
Nazri, Nur Aisha
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description The biggest problem in agriculture sector across Malaysia recently, evolve around the limitation of agri-land especially in the urban or sub-urban area where the basic infrastructures have already been in place. Most of agri-land has been converted to industrial land based on increasing demand and faster returns. Agrivoltaic system plays a significant role as a practical solution in mitigating and providing agri space for agricultural activities by means of integration with the existing solar Photovoltaic (PV) farm infrastructure. The area under solar PV array is shaded by the PV modules which is an opaque surface and only receives sunlight thru reflected lights from the ground and openings between modules. The field assessment is conducted in Puchong Solarfarm, Selangor, Malaysia with the generating capacity of 2 MWp using ground-mounted solar structures. Condition under PV arrays can be considered as a low light intensity but unfortunately the estimated value of light penetration for the agri-space have not been discussed in literature. Thus, this study provides some field information on the light intensity value for spot location directly underneath solar PV in comparison with direct sunlight spot area. This information would assist solar operators and potential farmers to established suitable crops in the solarfarm infrastructures as means of optimizing the solarfarm area.
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spelling upm-442232023-12-24T16:06:45Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/44223/ On the light intensity value under photovoltaic arrays for agrivoltaic integration Ya'acob, Mohammad Effendy Othman, Noor Fadzlinda Nazri, Nur Aisha The biggest problem in agriculture sector across Malaysia recently, evolve around the limitation of agri-land especially in the urban or sub-urban area where the basic infrastructures have already been in place. Most of agri-land has been converted to industrial land based on increasing demand and faster returns. Agrivoltaic system plays a significant role as a practical solution in mitigating and providing agri space for agricultural activities by means of integration with the existing solar Photovoltaic (PV) farm infrastructure. The area under solar PV array is shaded by the PV modules which is an opaque surface and only receives sunlight thru reflected lights from the ground and openings between modules. The field assessment is conducted in Puchong Solarfarm, Selangor, Malaysia with the generating capacity of 2 MWp using ground-mounted solar structures. Condition under PV arrays can be considered as a low light intensity but unfortunately the estimated value of light penetration for the agri-space have not been discussed in literature. Thus, this study provides some field information on the light intensity value for spot location directly underneath solar PV in comparison with direct sunlight spot area. This information would assist solar operators and potential farmers to established suitable crops in the solarfarm infrastructures as means of optimizing the solarfarm area. IEEE 2022 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Ya'acob, Mohammad Effendy and Othman, Noor Fadzlinda and Nazri, Nur Aisha (2022) On the light intensity value under photovoltaic arrays for agrivoltaic integration. In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon2022), 5-6 Dec. 2022, Langkawi, Kedah, Malaysia. (pp. 122-126). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9988820 10.1109/PECon54459.2022.9988820
spellingShingle Ya'acob, Mohammad Effendy
Othman, Noor Fadzlinda
Nazri, Nur Aisha
On the light intensity value under photovoltaic arrays for agrivoltaic integration
title On the light intensity value under photovoltaic arrays for agrivoltaic integration
title_full On the light intensity value under photovoltaic arrays for agrivoltaic integration
title_fullStr On the light intensity value under photovoltaic arrays for agrivoltaic integration
title_full_unstemmed On the light intensity value under photovoltaic arrays for agrivoltaic integration
title_short On the light intensity value under photovoltaic arrays for agrivoltaic integration
title_sort on the light intensity value under photovoltaic arrays for agrivoltaic integration
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/44223/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/44223/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/44223/