{"Page SDG":"SDG07 Affordable and clean energy, SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure, SDG02 Zero hunger, SDG12 Responsible consumption and production, SDG13 Climate action","Page URL":"https://www.appropedia.org/Creating_just_agrivoltaic_transitions_for_large-scale_solar:_a_comparative_multi_criteria_analysis","Page affiliations":"Category:FAST, Western, Macquarie University","Page authors":"User:J.M.Pearce, User:Uzairjamil, Nischala McDonnell, Peter Davies, Madeline Taylor","Page description":"Agrivoltaics enables synergies between solar photovoltaics and agriculture, offering a dual solution to preserve agricultural activities while producing renewable electricity. Agrivoltaic systems promote agricultural, economic, social, and environmental outcomes, advancing Sustainable Development Goals SDG 2 (Zero Hunger); SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy); SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production); and (SDG 13 Climate Action). While the climate, technological, and agricultural productivity benefits of agrivoltaics are well understood, questions remain concerning its socio-technical opportunities and challenges as a catalyst for just transitions in both mature and emerging agrivoltaics jurisdictions. This study presents the first multi-criteria analysis (MCA)-based just transition assessment of agrivoltaics, providing a novel quantitative and socio-legal framework to evaluate its contribution to equitable energy transitions. Assessing the multifaceted contribution of agrivoltaics to climate, food, and energy security requires quantifying and evaluating benefits and risks to activate just transition-focused policy and legal reform. In turn this can enable the acceleration of socio-technical innovations to achieve landscape-level just agrivoltaics. The MCA framework is applied to three mature European agrivoltaic jurisdictions − Germany, Italy, and France − to guide emerging agrivoltaic practices in Alberta, Canada, and New South Wales, Australia. Applying quantitative and socio-legal functional comparative mixed methods MCA approach, the study provides a replicable framework to inform policy and regulatory design, highlighting opportunities to align agrivoltaic deployment with broader just transition objectives. The study findings offer actionable socio-legal insights for scaling agrivoltaics while embedding just transition principles, with broader implications for energy, climate, and agricultural policy.","Page image":"File:Ladyjustice.png","Page keywords":"agriculture, agrivoltaic, Canada, farming, photovoltaic, solar energy, energy, solar power, photovoltaics, Land use, Dual use, Agrivoltaics, FAST Completed, climate policy, Just transition, Socio-legal framework, Energy policy, Agricultural policy\nthin film photovoltaic, partially transparent photovoltaic","Page language":"en","Page license":"CC-BY-SA-4.0","Page title":"Creating just agrivoltaic transitions for large-scale solar: a comparative multi criteria analysis","Page views":"16","Page year":"Wednesday, 01-Jan-25 00:00:00 UTC","Modification date":"Wednesday, 16-Sep-26 15:30:39 UTC"}