The light, the crop, the water and the money under a solar array, modelled hour by hour before a single post goes in.
Same seed, same soil, same water. The one thing the array changes is light: the module edges and the posts take a different share of sun from every square metre, every hour.
Plants in the least-lit third grow on a slower clock. The model follows that square metre by square metre, because a crop answers to the light it receives, not to the field average.
Crop under the array as a share of open field is one half of the land equivalent ratio. The kilowatt-hours are the other half. The studio computes both, every hour, for 25 years.
Solar and farming compete for the same land. What decides the outcome is how much light each receives, hour by hour, over twenty-five years.
Five models run for every hour of the year, each handing its answer to the next. You set the site, the crop and the structure; the studio does the rest.
Fifteen years of hourly weather, turned into the light a leaf can actually use.
How much sun and sky each patch of ground keeps once the modules are overhead.
Day by day, the crop turns the light it receives into growth, held back by heat and dry spells.
Rain, shade and evaporation, tracked through the root zone every day of the season.
Food and power from the same land, set against growing or generating on their own.
Ground light by month, by season, or hour by hour on a representative day.
Share of open-field light, daily light integral, or days below the crop's own floor.
A control plot beside the array, so every number has something to be measured against.
Press play and the year runs month by month, with wet and dry seasons marked.
"Edge rows not modelled" is printed on the screen, not hidden in a manual.
A seasonal map across one row pitch shows where and when the shade bites, and counts the days a year the crop sits below the light it needs.
Pick an archetype and a to-scale preview redraws the shadow at both solstices. Each card says whether it suits the crop you chose.
How much water the crop needs under the array, then laterals, emitters, mainline, tank and a PV-direct pump drawn across the parcel. A schematic, and labelled as one.
Debt sized on P90 energy, DSCR year by year, sculpted repayment and an Excel model with live formulas, next to NPV, IRR and a farmer–developer offer.
Lends 16.8M ZAR on P90 and clears the 1.35× DSCR target with min DSCR 1.37×.The Lender tab's own answer · demo run · indicative, not a credit decisionFinance, lender and deal
Twelve regimes across Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, plus voluntary profiles where no statute exists. Every rule shows its metric, threshold, margin and source.
A single-axis tracker, drawn to scale. Follow the sun for energy, or turn the modules away at midday and give the light back to the crop. The readout shows what each choice costs.
Every result is stamped "Indicative · T0" until a hosted ray-traced tier exists. Nothing on this site is a bankable result.
A Bahasa Indonesia interface, IDR throughout, regional crop prices and yields, and a voluntary South-East Asia profile with permitting checklists.
Strawberries under tunnels, ZAR throughout, and a voluntary Southern Africa profile where no agrivoltaic statute exists yet.
We run your parcel from boundary to dossier: structure, crop, light, water and money, in one sitting.