Salvation against water stress
Climate change is suffocating delicate fruits. Raspberries, blueberries or strawberries need shade during scorching hours. The federal agroscope quantified the tests after three dry years: Under semi-transparent panels, the temperature of the foliage is lowered by 4 to 5 degrees. Soil water evapotranspiration drops by 30%. Less drought, less irrigation water pumped. Fruit yields maintain intact sugar qualities compared to the surrounding burned plots.
Death to plastic anti-hail nets
In the Rhône plain or on La Côte, the roll of anti-hail net tears, flies away during cyclones and generates mountains of insoluble plastic waste every 10 years. Agri-voltaic PV glass-glass panels are certified for extreme hail (HW4) and last 35 years. Their framework is so massive that it provides steel armor to the vines and crops. They become the primary valorization asset of the vast wine estate.
The cooperative business model: the art of reselling in winter
An agricultural estate uses a lot of electricity for its irrigation pumps or its storage refrigerators. With Agri-PV, the farmer wipes out this crazy debt 100%. Better still, overproduction is injected and resold to the neighboring DNO. The pact is so juicy that SwissGrid promotes this type of agro-social innovation. In 2026, some pioneer winegrowers admit to drawing almost more annual profit from the Spot resale of their electricity production to the neighboring commune than from just the harvest of the grapes sheltered underneath.