2024 Volume 80 Issue 27 Article ID: 24-27021
In this study, we conducted a questionnaire survey among individual farmers and agricultural corporations to identify their willingness to implement agrivoltaic systems. The results of a simple tabulation showed that only 30% of all respondents were aware of agrivoltaic systems, and 20% of all respondents were willing to implement agrivoltaic systems. A chi-squared test on the willingness to implement agrivoltaic systems by individual farmers and agricultural corporations revealed that individual farmers were significantly more likely to be unwilling to implement agrivoltaic systems or to implement agrivoltaic systems under a business system in which the farmer and the power producer are different, while agricultural corporations were significantly more likely to implement agrivoltaic systems under a business system in which the farmer and the power producer are the same. A regression analysis of the factors influencing individual farmers’ willingness to implement agrivoltaic systems showed that concerns about technical and environmental aspects of agrivoltaic systems, interest in agrivoltaic systems, and crop type had significant effects on individual farmers’ willingness to implement agrivoltaic systems.
