{"id":514273,"date":"2025-10-20T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514273\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:43:11","slug":"agripv-projects-in-spain-now-eligible-for-farming-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514273\/","title":{"rendered":"AgriPV projects in Spain now eligible for farming subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boe.es\/boe\/dias\/2025\/10\/15\/pdfs\/BOE-A-2025-20583.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">additions to the decree<\/a> (in Spanish) is as follows: \u201cIn the case of agrivoltaic installations, the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe plot of land under cultivation or permanent crops will continue to be considered eligible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The modifications implemented in the decree do not include how the requirements to access subsidies will be achieved but will be established at a later date through the \u201crelevant regulatory development\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The recognition of the dual-use of the land for agricultural purposes and solar installations was welcomed by the trade association Spanish Photovoltaic Union (UNEF).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis progress represents a regulatory and political milestone that we hope will have a positive impact on both agricultural production and solar energy, boosting agricultural income, climate resilience, and energy sovereignty in rural areas,\u201d Mart\u00edn Behar K\u00f6lln, director of research, regulatory and environmental affairs at UNEF, wrote on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>Behar K\u00f6lln added that UNEF will continue working on facilitating the application of agrivoltaics as well as extending it to livestock applications.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s inclusion of agrivoltaics for subsidy eligibility is a move in the opposite direction to that seen in Italy last year, when the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/italy-bans-solar-on-agricultural-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banned ground-mounted solar PV projects on land classed as agricultural<\/a>. More recently, in the US, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/usda-prohibits-agripv-projects-applying-federal-loan-programmes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Agriculture barred solar PV and wind projects<\/a> from being eligible to its Rural Development Business and Industry Guaranteed Loan Program.<\/p>\n<p>However, the dual-use of the land for agriPV has the potential to further accelerate the growth of solar PV in Germany. A recent study from research organisation the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) forecast that Germany could install 500GW of new agriPV capacity on its most \u201csuitable\u201d land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the additions to the decree (in Spanish) is as follows: \u201cIn the case of agrivoltaic installations,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[168030,162805,168031,2000,299,168032,104,168033],"class_list":{"0":"post-514273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-agripv","9":"tag-agrivoltaics","10":"tag-common-agricultural-policy","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-government-subsidies","14":"tag-spain","15":"tag-unef"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115406322539009503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}