Systematic review finds agrivoltaics shields crops from frost, heat, and hail, indicating solar infrastructure enhances farm resilience against extreme weather events.
Key Points
Synthesize published evidence on the capacity of agrivoltaic systems to serve as a climate adaptation strategy protecting crops and livestock from extreme weather events.
PRISMA systematic review searching Scopus (1,152 records) and PubMed (1,208 records) through 2025.
Assessed 93 Scopus and 160 PubMed full texts, ultimately including 27 eligible studies evaluating agrivoltaics and extreme weather events.
Simulation evidence indicates agrivoltaics reduces frost damage risk by >40%, while experimental data demonstrates mitigation of leaf sunburn, hail impact, heat stress, water deficit, and wind exposure.
A majority of reviewed studies (54%) occurred in temperate regions, while fewer than 3% of Scopus-indexed agrivoltaic literature explicitly investigated resilience to extreme weather.
Direct empirical evidence evaluating agrivoltaic-driven energy resilience during post-disaster agricultural supply disruptions remains sparse.