Solarplaza Summit | Agri-PV Europe

Europe's agrivoltaic pipeline looks impressive on paper. The reality of what gets built - where, why, and on what timeline - tells a different story. This keynote draws on five years of tracked announcement-to-commissioning data across nine European markets to answer the question investors and developers need answered before they place their next bet: where does agri-PV actually scale, and why?

The numbers are in. This session digs directly into the agronomic data to explore what Europe’s operational agrivoltaic projects are actually delivering on farms today, in terms of crop performance and climate adaptation.

This session offers a candid investor perspective on how developers can structure agri-PV projects that meet financing criteria from day one, reducing risk, accelerating permitting, and unlocking capital at scale.

This session explores how technology evolution, smarter system design, and operational optimisation are reducing CAPEX and OPEX., bringing agri-PV closer to mainstream utility-scale economics.

Agri-PV projects must deliver strong agricultural performance while remaining economically viable and sustainable over the long term. Achieving this requires carefully balancing the expectations of farmers, investors, local authorities, and regulators within a rapidly evolving regulatory environment.

In this context, developers play a critical role in aligning agricultural productivity, regulatory compliance, and project bankability.

This presentation explores how the recent French decree is redefining this balance, with a particular focus on its cost implications and the short-term impacts on Agri-PV project development in France.

Getting the permit was the hard part. What comes next is ensuring that agricultural activity is effectively maintained over time, within a framework that is still evolving and interpreted differently across territories. While the French law sets clear objectives, its implementation remains uneven, creating risks for developers. This session provides a field-based perspective on how to design projects that remain credible and defensible in the long term.

Batteries are coming to agri-PV, not as an add-on, but as a structural shift in how projects are financed, valued, and operated. This session explores what adding storage actually does to the agri-PV business model: who benefits, what the revenue stack looks like in practice, and whether flexibility revenues are genuinely bankable in 2026 or still too uncertain to underwrite.

This session tells you what that model looks like, what it gets right that others don't, and what it means for developers and investors watching Central Europe as the next wave of European agri-PV volume.

Policy is where agri-PV either scales or stalls. The EAGER project has spent the past two years doing something no market report has done: sitting with policymakers, farmers, regional authorities, and energy agencies across nine regions in Europe, Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Serbia, Belgium, and Ukraine, to map exactly where the policy barriers are, what good practice looks like when it works, and what it would take to replicate it. This closing keynote shares what that cross-regional knowledge exchange has revealed.