Programme: Horizon Europe

Duration: 36 months (11/2025 – 10/2028)

Budget: € 1.9 millions

Site: Under construction

Summary: AGRISOL aims at enhancing the deployment of agrivoltaics to accelerate the sustainable market uptake of solar energy in agriculture. Leveraging the expertise of the 10 involved partners, the project aims to support at least 30 PV market actors, farmers, farmers associations and agribusinesses in EU countries. This will help overcome existing barriers and viably take up APV systems in the lands. As a part of the project, the existing framework condition and the APV value chain will be analysed and a co-design process will take place to engage with local stakeholders across five EU states (Greece, Italy, Spain, Demark and Poland). A series of demand-driven business, financial and technical support services along with dedicated capacity building programs will be developed while an engagement platform will facilitate collaboration and knowledge exchange among industry actors. AGRISOL will also focus on providing credible estimations about APV potential, prospect profits with benefits and a clear view for APV policy making across various EU countries. In order to improve the societal acceptance of APV amongst farmers and citizens, well-tailored awareness-raising campaigns and social impact methodologies will be developed. At the same time, AGRISOL will support the development of an enabling environment for the market uptake of APV by formulating relevant policy recommendations at both national and EU level and widely disseminating them to policymakers. Finally, an ESG monitoring and evaluation framework will evaluate the overall performance and impact, ensuring the long-term sustainability of the developed solutions.

Our Role: As a key technical partner in AGRISOL, RENEL will support the coordination for the the agrivoltaics market uptake. This includes the coordination of technical and business support to market actors, while supporting the activities that will raise acceptability to overcome societal barriers. RENEL will also contribute to the design of the agrivoltaics assessment tool by designing a decision support instrument that will take into account the users’ needs, enabling them to evaluate the viability of their land. As a pilot leader, RENEL will work closely with the Greek stakeholders to gather primary data, run local engagement activities and deliver capacity building sections.