Energy and SunTowards a Communal Solar LandscapeBastien Terrettaz, Eu Juin Toh, and Esad Mujanovic

A huge diversity of scales and types of PV systems are visible in the German landscape.

Tracing from the 1990s, the rise of Big Players in the solar landscape has been the “hidden” protagonist influencing the evolution of types and scales of solar infrastructure developing in the Germany.

The multivalence of solar infrastructures calls to address the relevance and effectiveness of the various systems. Through business models, the welfare of the individual stakeholders is surfaced.

Does energy transition mean that we must increase the number of Agrivoltaic installations? We acknowledge the presence of a Mental-Discerning Presumption. Through comparison, majority would encourage the proliferation of new hybrid photovoltaic systems as beneficial for our energy landscape. However, the question of such systems being ecologically and economically sustainable remain at large.

The priority of the implementation of PV systems play an important role to developing a step-by-step model which safeguards the welfare of the people. It also makes known that there is no urgent need for the rapid expansion of PV types in the landscape if the sole purpose is to provide energy for the community. There should be no trade-offs between soil and PV as the model seeks to value-add the landscape rather than depleting its resources.

To produce solar energy communally, strong collaboration between farmers, the state and the people is necessary. PV goes beyond the aesthetic notion of renewables and its technocratic role in energy transition. Rather it is heavily linked with the ground and where it is placed.