Compatibility between Crops and Solar Panels: An Overview from Shading Systems
1
Department of Engineering, University of Almería, Agrifood Campus of International Excellence (CeiA3), s/n, 04120 La Cañada, Almería, Spain
2
Departamento de Ingeniería Rural y Agroalimentaria, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2018, 10(3), 743; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10030743
Received: 14 January 2018 / Revised: 3 March 2018 / Accepted: 6 March 2018 / Published: 8 March 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Lighting and Energy Saving)
The use of alternative energy in agricultural production is desired by many researchers, especially for protected crops that are grown in greenhouses with photovoltaic panels on the roofs. These panels allow for the passage of varying levels of sunlight according to the needs of each type of crop. In this way, sustainable and more economic energy can be generated than that offered by fossil fuels. The objective of this work is to review the literature regarding the applications of selective shading systems with crops, highlighting the use of photovoltaic panels. In this work, shading systems have been classified as bleaching, mesh, screens, and photovoltaic modules. The search was conducted using Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus until February 2018. In total, 113 articles from scientific journals and related conferences were selected. The most important authors of this topic are “Yano A” and “Abdel-Ghany AM”, and regarding the number of documents cited, the most important journal is Biosystems Engineering. The year 2017 had the most publications, with a total of 20, followed by 2015 with 14. The use of shading systems, especially of photovoltaic panels, requires more crop-specific research to determine the optimum percentage of panels that does not reduce agricultural production.
View Full-Text
Keywords:
sunlight; shading; greenhouse; solar panels; renewable energy
▼
Show Figures
Graphical abstract
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
MDPI and ACS Style
Aroca-Delgado, R.; Pérez-Alonso, J.; Callejón-Ferre, Á.J.; Velázquez-Martí, B. Compatibility between Crops and Solar Panels: An Overview from Shading Systems. Sustainability 2018, 10, 743. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10030743
AMA Style
Aroca-Delgado R, Pérez-Alonso J, Callejón-Ferre ÁJ, Velázquez-Martí B. Compatibility between Crops and Solar Panels: An Overview from Shading Systems. Sustainability. 2018; 10(3):743. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10030743
Chicago/Turabian StyleAroca-Delgado, Raúl, José Pérez-Alonso, Ángel J. Callejón-Ferre, and Borja Velázquez-Martí. 2018. "Compatibility between Crops and Solar Panels: An Overview from Shading Systems" Sustainability 10, no. 3: 743. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10030743
Find Other Styles
Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.
