According to the World Bank studies, the urban consumption will triple by 2030. By 2030, about 40 percent of humanity will be insufficiently supplied with water. At the same time, global energy consumption and food consumption will increase by 36 % by 2025.
If urban infrastructures are to keep pace with these onslaught, we need to make them more intelligent. Technological knowledge and the available resources in the water, energy and nutrition sectors must be used sustainably in order to create an environmentally and climate-friendly development in cities and municipalities.
SUNfarming has developed the unique "Food & Energy Urban Concept": Sustainable solar energy and regional food are produced together - on the same area. In addition to the solar power, vegetables, fruits, flowers or fish, regional or local PV production can be gained in new or already built PV free-field installations between the module series or in special agro-solar Food & Energy greenhouses.
Based on our own developments, SUNfarming has developed unique agro-solar substructures for greenhouses. The roofs of the greenhouses are partially covered with solar modules for energy production. In the greenhouse vegetables, fruits and flowers can be cultivated under the solar modules.
The system was originally developed to combine the production of electricity and food with the creation of jobs in the economically weak environment such as developing and emerging countries. However, it also offers the urban population the benefits of the combined double production of solar power and vegetables. Also, fish cultures can be bred here.
With the SUNfarming Direct-Electricity Concept, we have been supplying green electricity from our own PV plants to local authorities, commercial and industrial companies for years and can offer a price saving of approx. 10% below the market price. As a result of intensified urbanization and the resultant scarcity of resources, the renewable energy generation and the production of food between the modular series of our free field plants will become increasingly important in the future.
The "SUNfarming Food & Energy Free Field System" is an extension of the Direct-Electricity Concept and offers the power customers the possibility to grow their own and regional ' organic vegetables ' by means of specially developed substructures, ecologically and resource-friendly and harvest fresh from the field. It is our most widely used system for utility scale PV plants worldwide
In the first freefield trials, courgettes, potatoes and pumpkins flourish splendidly between the module rows.
"Our experimental areas for potatoes on light soils in Brandenburg yield a yield of 55 to 60 t / ha. In Brandenburg, 38 - 45 tonnes are normal with irrigation, which results in an increase of 35-40%, "explains Peter Schrum founder of the SUNfarming Group.
Municipalities and business areas permanently and sustainably save up to 10% energy costs against your energy supplier and at the same time increase your independence through your own green solar power from your municipal / commercial roofs.
SUNfarming invests and installs your own power supply.
SUNfarming Food & Energy Urban Concept offers:
Office Berlin/Erkner
15537 Erkner
Tel. +49 (0) 172 445 0686
a.floerchinger@sunfarming.de
Office Berlin/Erkner
15537 Erkner
Tel. +49 (0) 3362 885 9123
d.morr@sunfarming.de
Office Berlin/Erkner
15537 Erkner
Tel. +49 (0) 174 863 0032
k.buehring@sunfarming.de
Office Saxony-Anhalt/Thuringia
06779 Raguhn-Jeßnitz
Tel. +49 (0) 177 233 3596
m.link@sunfarming.de
Office Berlin/Headquarter
15537 Erkner
Tel. +49 (0) 163 33 82 440
h.schoenherr@sunfarming.de
Office Berlin/Brandenburg I – Potsdam, Frankfurt/O, Oranienburg
15517 Fürstenwalde/Spree
Tel. +49 (0) 176 724 83 948
h.kamper@sunfarming.de
Office Brandenburg/Spreewald/
Spree-Neiße
03042 Cottbus
Tel. +49 (0) 157 377 45 481
r.bergholz@sunfarming.de
Office M-V/ Nordbrandenburg
Altentreptow
Tel. +49 (0) 171 57 33 506
u.brandt@sunfarming.de
Office Saxony, Dresden/Bautzen
02627 Kubschütz
Tel. +49 (0) 162 265 92 35
f.mattern@sunfarming.de
Office Brandenburg
15537 Erkner
Tel. +49 (0) 3362 8859 188
s.eppinger@sunfarming.de
Office Schleswig Holstein
25782 Schalkholz
Tel. +49 (0) 172 952 69 69
g.schrum@sunfarming.de
Office Schleswig-Holstein
25794 Dörpling
Tel. +49 (0) 171 889 42 54
i.schwedt@sunfarming.de