Exploring the Applicability of Agrivoltaic System in UAE and Its Merits

Food, energy security and self-sufficiency have become the main drivers of modern economies. The UAE Cabinet announced the appointment of a Minister of state for food and water security in order to conduct research, develop plans and apply technologies in this field. The aim of this paper is to provide and recommend an appropriate agrivoltaic system for UAE agriculture and livestock grazing and proposing an agrivoltaic dates farm in UAE by reviewing the most important methods, several technologies and arrangements adopted for agrivoltaic and shed light on how food, water and energy can be produced simultaneously. In agrivoltaic system complete farming and irrigation are carried out. Utilization of land under photovoltaic power generation unit can be used for crops production. It has been analyzed the shading effect of photovoltaic panel on crops. In this way land can utilized for both power production as well as agricultures. Semitransparent photovoltaic is much efficient in utilization of land under photovoltaic panel for farming. It gives better yield of crops. Innovative semitransparent flexible photovoltaic material for photovoltaic system is ideal for agrivoltaic system. Furthermore, this kind of system in very useful to reduce the effect of the dust and sand on the Solar panel (PV). Moreover, enhances the PV performance. This research provides a comparison framework and the progress of the most important existing technologies used to implement Agrivoltaic, systems characteristics under study and the operating conditions/constraints of the system such that it can help to project on the UAE land and weather for design and future realization.