This year, we participated in the Salon International de l’Agriculture, the world’s most important agricultural trade fair, where we had the chance to present the Sun’Agri agrivoltaic technology. Hosted at the stand of IRSTEA (one of our Sun’Agri 3 partners), we were visited by Brune Poirson and Sébastien Lecornu, both junior ministers in the French Ministry of the Ecological Transition. …
By controlling the tilting of the dynamic solar panels above the vines in response to water stress, Sun’R and INRA hope to offer a solution to climate change. The first system will be installed on a vineyard in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the spring of 2018. Read more
While the concept behind agrivoltaics first emerged in the 1980s, this technology for regulating the microclimate of plants has only been developing in earnest since 2009. Pierre Guerrier, our Director of Development, answers questions about the functioning of agrivoltaics. Read more
The various projects of the Sun’Agri programme have been presented to the Labelling Committees of the most influential competitiveness clusters in the fields of: Agriculture – Terralia, Vinseo and Qualimediterranée (which has merged with Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation) and renewable energy – Tenerrdis, Capenergies and Derbi. This recognition of the technical, economic and environmental significance of the Sun’Agri solution, both by …
On 20 February 2017, Carole Delga, president of the Occitanie region, presented the “Contract for the Future” of the Pyrénées-Orientales department. The Pech Rouge experimental vineyard facility, which was set up by Sun’R and INRA in early 2018, as well as the world’s first agrivoltaic demonstration system constructed by Sun’R in Tresserre at the end of 2017, are among the …
This illustrates our long-standing partnership with INRA in the development of agrivoltaic systems. The goal of the Sun’Agri project is to put in place systems that combine agricultural and electricity production on the same plot of land. These systems, known as dynamic agrivoltaics (mobile solar panels), are designed to optimise agricultural production.
During its formal session on 25 September 2013, the French Academy of Agriculture presented its annual awards and medals. Among the recipients was Hélène Marrou, the first doctoral student to conduct research on our fixed agrivoltaic system, who was singled out for the quality of her work. Hélène Marrou defended her thesis, which was financed by Sun’R, an energy producer, …
The final general assembly of the Qualiméditerranée competitiveness cluster before its merger with the Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation cluster was held on 22 June 2016. On this occasion, to celebrate the cluster’s 12 years of support for innovative projects, 10 companies were selected from among the 90 members to present their projects by means of a 3-minute pitch. At this event, …
Sun’Agri 3 is one of the winners of funding for investments in the future, as part of ADEME’s “Eco-efficient Industry and Agriculture” call for projects. The programme brings together a multidisciplinary consortium consisting of six partners and has a total budget of approximately €15 million. This third phase of our R&D project aims to demonstrate the suitability of dynamic agrivoltaics …
The Domaine de Nidolères in the Pyrénées-Orientales department is preparing to plant 4.5 hectares of vines under an agrivoltaic system by the beginning of 2018: a world first for viticulture. The agrivoltaic installation will be implemented on a plot of land that has been fallow for almost 10 years. Pierre Escudié, the winegrower, will thus expand his vineyard from 25 …
