The next DLG Field Days will take place from 20 to 22 June 2028 in North Hesse. The venue is the Hessian State Estate at Beberbeck, near Kassel/ Germany
For decentralized energy supply, EU farmers place their greatest hopes in energy storage, flexible biogas plants, and agrivoltaics (Agri-PV) as key technologies for the energy transition.
A research project involving the engineering firm SPV Sonneburg, Geisenheim University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) is currently testing a mobile photovoltaic system designed specifically for viticulture.
The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) has examined how the expansion of photovoltaics in Germany can progress in an environmentally friendly way. Agri-PV plays an important role in this.
Agri-PV brings together the best of agriculture and solar power generation. The question remains: how do solar installations influence land management and crop yields? Early findings suggest that the benefits are measurable.
Some alternatives are already ready for the market - for example, fully electric tractors. Large tractors and harvesters, on the other hand, are still dependent on liquid fuels. But which ones? There are still many unanswered questions and a number of hurdles that need to be overcome.
In the run-up to the EnergyDecentral trade fair in Hanover in November 2024, the DLG asked German farmers in its most recent DLG Practice
Monitor – a survey on farmers’ opinion on practical farming issues - how they assess on-farm photovoltaic power stations and agrivoltaics.
