Sustainable Energy Systems agrivoltaics research

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Publications

Pincelli IP, Hinkley J, Brent AC, 2024. Carbon, materials and energy footprint of a utility-scale solar plant in Aotearoa New Zealand. Solar Energy 273, 112535, doi:10.1016/j.solener.2024.112535.

Mohseni S, Brent AC, 2023. Probabilistic sizing and scheduling co-optimisation of hybrid battery/super-capacitor energy storage systems in micro-grids. Journal of Energy Storage 73 (D), 109172, doi: 10.1016/j.est.2023.109172.

Brent AC, Crossland A, Ranusa D, 2023. An assessment of the economic feasibility of the floating PV technology in Aotearoa–New Zealand. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 57, 103284, doi: 10.1016/j.seta.2023.103284.

Mohseni S, Brent AC, 2023. Size and dispatch co-optimisation of a grid-connected agrivoltaic system. AgriVoltaics, Daegu, South Korea, doi: 10.52825/agripv.v2i.977.

Brent AC, Chapman N, de Kock IH, 2023. Agrivoltaic systems: Potential opportunities for South Africa - A GIS analysis. AgriVoltaics, Daegu, South Korea, doi: 10.52825/agripv.v2i.982.

Brent AC, Vaughan A, Fitzgerald M, Wright E, Kueppers J, 2023. Agrivoltaics: Integrating solar energy generation with livestock farming in the Canterbury Region of Aotearoa New Zealand. 9th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Engineering, Fiji, doi: 10.1109/i-COSTE60462.2023.10500779.

Mohseni S, Brent AC, 2022. A metaheuristic‐based micro‐grid sizing model with integrated arbitrage‐aware multi‐day battery dispatching. Sustainability 14, 12941, doi: 10.3390/su141912941.

MacKenzie D, Brent AC, Hinkley JT, Burmester D, 2022. AgriPV systems: Potential opportunities for Aotearoa–New Zealand. Agrivoltaics, Piacenza, Italy.

Media releases

Solar farms can eat up farmland – but ‘agrivoltaics’ could mean the best of both worlds for NZ farmers

How AI could revolutionize agrivoltaics deployment

Webinars

Agrivoltaics: Effectively integrating livestock and solar energy production

Farming with the sun: Exploring agrivoltaics from a farming perspective

Videos

An Itroduction to agrivoltaics in Aotearoa New Zealand

Agrivoltaics and Te Ao Māori

Aotearoa New Zealand law and agrivoltaics
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