Food and power from the same site
One model for the trade-off between kilowatt-hours and kilograms. We start in Indonesia and South Africa, where land is contested, the sun is strong and no agrivoltaic statute exists yet to lean on.
A market that has outgrown its design tools
agrivoltaics installed worldwide by 2021
REN21 · Global Status Report 2024across 1,393 projects in Japan by the end of FY2024
TaiyangNewsof strawberries under tunnels in South Africa
Haygrove SA · Farmer's Weeklyof renewable additions planned in Indonesia's RUPTL 2025–2034
RAPglobal agrivoltaics market in 2024
Mordor Intelligence · Grand View Research · paywalled estimatesEach figure is what its publisher wrote. Market-size estimates are paywalled and marked so; we do not reconcile them into one number.
A feasibility study today is spread across five tools, and the trade-off between kilowatt-hours and kilograms belongs to none of them.
Thirteen engine stages run from the parcel to the ledger. Change the structure and the light, the crop, the water and the money move together, in one run, with one stamp.
Where the rules are, and where we start
Every statute the studio screens sits between about 24° and 55° N. Our launch markets have no agrivoltaic statute, so the studio ships voluntary profiles and permitting checklists for both, and says plainly that they are not law.
Shaded band · within 20° of the equator, where the vertical fence (C) is advisory only · line at 0° is the equator
Indonesia
A Bahasa Indonesia interface, IDR throughout, regional crop prices and yields for 34 regions, Fields of The World outlines for snapping, and the voluntary South-East Asia profile with its permitting checklist.
- Demo
- chili · archetype A
- Rate book
- IDN-2026
South Africa
About 600 ha of strawberries already grow under tunnels: the covered archetypes compare a PV roof with the film it replaces. ZAR throughout, with a ZAR lender case and the voluntary Southern Africa profile.
- Demo
- strawberry · archetype E
- Rate book
- ZAF-2026
Who uses it
- Solar EPCs and developersReplace the five-tool stitch with one model and one dossier.
- Agribusiness estatesScreen land for food-plus-power before paying for a feasibility study.
- Lenders and development financeP90 energy, crop bands and a lender workbook in one export.
- Growers under plasticCompare a PV canopy with the film you replace every few seasons.
- ResearchersAn open methods note, a validation scorecard and evidence labels on every parameter.
In build
Nothing in this table is in the live studio. No dates, no quarters.
| Item | What it changes | State |
|---|---|---|
| Finite-parcel light · T1 | Ray-cast ground light over the real parcel at 0.25 m, so edge rows stop being an approximation. | In build |
| Design optimiser | Search verified on the finite-parcel light, with a library of tracker policies. | In build |
| Irrigation hydraulics | Pipe sizing and PV-direct pumping, beyond today's schematic drip layout. | In build |
| Climate risk · CMIP6 | The engine and its data exist; the tab is not yet wired to them. | Built · not wired |
| Live telemetry | The server route exists; the studio only takes logger file uploads today. | Built · not wired |
| Hosted ray-traced solver · T2 | The tier an engineered report would cite. | Planned |
| Literature meta-analysis | Priors from a structured review with a PRISMA flow, to grow the evidence behind each crop. | Planned |
| Standalone accounts | Sign-up, teams, billing and white-label exports. | Planned |
Principles
- Every number says how sure it isIts basis, its band and its sources, one click from the figure.
- Weather bandsFifteen weather years and P10 · P50 · P90, instead of one optimistic number.
- Screening onlyRule tables with margins and clauses. Voluntary and draft rules never show a pass.
- Problems listed firstA negative NPV, an untested shade level or a failed validation row is shown at the top of the result.
Walk a real field with us
From boundary to dossier in one sitting: structure, crop, light, water and money, on a parcel you choose.