Combined land use of solar infrastructure and agriculture for socioeconomic and environmental co-benefits in the tropics
Combined land use of solar infrastructure and agriculture for socioeconomic and environmental co-benefits in the tropics
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结合太阳能基础设施和农业的土地利用,实现热带地区的社会经济和环境协同效益
DOI:
10.1016/j.rser.2021.111610
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
Davatzes, Nicholas C.
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作者:
Choi, Chong Seok;Ravi, Sujith;Siregar, Iskandar Z.;Dwiyanti, Fifi Gus;Macknick, Jordan;Elchinger, Michael;Davatzes, Nicholas C.
Solar photovoltaics (PV) are on the rise even in areas of low solar insolation. However, in developing countries with limited capital, land scarcity, or with geographically isolated agrarian communities, large solar infrastructures are often impractical. In these cases, implementation of low-density PV over existing crops may be required to integrate renewable energy services into rural communities. Here, using Indonesia as a model system, we investigated the land use, energy, greenhouse gas emissions, economic feasibility, and the environmental co-benefits associated with off-grid solar PV when combined with high value crop cultivation. The life cycle analyses indicate that small-scale dual land-use systems are economically viable in certain configurations and have the potential to provide several co-benefits including rural electrification, retrofitting diesel electricity generation, and electricity for processing agricultural products locally. A hypothetical full-density off-grid solar PV for a model village in Indonesia shows that electricity output (1907.5 GJ yr−1) is much higher than the total residential consumption (678 GJ yr−1), highlighting the opportunity to downscale the PV infrastructure by half to lower capital cost, to co-locate crops, and to support secondary income generating activities. Economic analysis shows that the 30-year net present cost of electricity from the half-density co-located PV system (12,257 million IDR) is significantly lower than that of the flat cost of diesel required to generate equivalent electricity (14,702 million IDR). Our analysis provides insights for smarter energy planning by optimizing the efficiency of land use and limiting conversion of agricultural and forested areas for energy production.
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