Converging Sciences for Agrivoltaics at Scale Symposium
June 27, 2025 @ 8:30-12:30
Amphitheatre Charles Friedel, Chimie ParisTech – PSL
11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
In a warming climate, agrivoltaics is a transformative solution to enhance crop yields, conserving water, generating clean energy, and boosting food security. Through a special partnership with the University of Arizona, the CNRS supports international collaborative research on agrivoltaics in all its dimensions, from natural to physical to social sciences. Please join us on Friday, June 27, 2025, for a CNRS-UArizona symposium at Chimie ParisTech - PSL, to learn about the latest advances in agrivoltaics interdisciplinary research driven by a cluster of CNRS and Arizona researchers and their doctoral students, featuring
· Agrivoltaics in a warmer, dryer world: the promise
· Political and legal challenges
· Materials and environmental impacts
· Yields across scales
· Ecological integration
Organized by Alexandra Langlais (Université Rennes 2) and Greg Barron-Gafford (University of Arizona) with support from the CNRS-Arizona International Research Center (CNRS), the France-Arizona Institute for Global Grand Challenges (University of Arizona), and the IGLOBES International Research Laboratory (CNRS, ENS-PSL, University of Arizona).
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Program:
8:30-9:00 Registration, welcome coffee/tea
9:00-9:05 PSL and CNRS Leadership
Introductory remarks
9:05-9:15 Regis Ferriere (College of Science, University of Arizona, and Biology
Department, ENS – PSL) and Sky Dominguez (France-Arizona Institute for Global Grand Challenges, U. Arizona)
The CNRS-Arizona IRC: solving global grand challenges, together
9:15-9:35 Greg Barron-Gafford (College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, U. Arizona)
Agrivoltaics in a warmer, dryer world: promise and challenges
9:35-9:55 Alexandra Langlais and Steven Bruno (doctoral student) (CNRS INSHS)
The political and legal challenges of agrivoltaics: thinking about the political and legal framework for the coexistence of agricultural, energy and environmental interests
9:55-10:15 Polina Volovitch (Professor, ChimieParisTech – PSL) and Philip Schulz (CNRS, IPVF, INC)
Emerging thin-film photovoltaics in an agricultural space: stability and interaction with the environment
10:15-10:35 Mélanie Auffan (CNRS INSU, remote presenter)
Large scale agrivoltaics: impacts of fouling processes by atmospheric particles on energy yields, solar panel aging, and crops contamination under various climatic conditions
10:35-11:00 Coffee/tea break & posters
11:00-11:20 Jianqiang Cheng (U. Arizona, College of Engineering)
To be confirmed.
11:20-11:40 Frédéric Wurtz and Zoé Zerbib (doctoral student) (CNRS INSIS)
Models, tools and indicators for evaluation of impacts and benefits of agricultural photovoltaics: resilience of energy and food transition from local-to-global scales through a participative and open science approach
11:40-12:00 Ronan Marrec (University of Amiens, CNRS INEE)
Multicriteria identification of landscapes suitable for agrivoltaic installations
12:00-12:20 Discussion with audience
12:20-12:30 Annick Lesne (CNRS scientific director of the CNRS-Arizona IRC)
Concluding remarks