At the 6th World Energy Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, the following paper was presented (full program as pdf is given as link).

8TuO.12.5

Photovoltaic Greenhouses: A Feasible Solution

for Islands? Design, Operation, Monitoring and

Lessons Learned from a Real Case Study

Alessandra Scognamiglio 1) , F. Garde 2) , T. Ratsimba 2) , A. 

Monnier 3) and E. Scotto 3)

1) ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies,

Energy and Sustainable Economic Development,

Italy, 2) ESIROI, Université de La Réunion, France, 3)

Akuoenergy, France

The presentation highlighted the need for balancing the electricity production needs (ROI for the PV system owner) with the type of crops that can be grown in such greenhouses. Some crops such as tomatoes suffer from the high humidity (due to the shading by the PV modules, which leads to less evaporation of water from the soil), whereas others grow quite well; In the presentation, this was water melons.

I do not have the paper nor the presentation, but with the above information, it should be possible for you to contact the article authors.

http://wcpec6.com/pdf/wcpec_for_web.pdf

I do have articles about utilization of biomass in agricultural sector

There are few important parameters which controls the efficiency of a greenhouse. Such as:

1) Using the heating system with high efficiency (higher performance)

2) Using highly accurate climate control system

3) Using high efficient artificial lighting system

4) Regular maintenance of the weather station

5) Using short and long term thermal storage system

6) Optimizing the CO2 enrichment control system

7) Using thermal screen

8) Using better insulation in the greenhouse construction

9) High performance glazing system

and so on....

You can find a detailed analysis in this paper:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261913007332

Dear Dr : Md. Nazmul Islam Sarkar thank you very much for your great guidance and comments. I really appreciate

Dear Reda,

In Canada, some limited research has been conducted on integrating anaerobic co-digestion of dairy manure with organic residues from greenhouse corps, and then use the CH4 generated from this process for heating the greenhouses where the crop residue was originated. Heating greenhouses require substantial amount of fossil fuel energy in Canada because of cold weather during ~6 months of the year. This system is an example for how to use renewable energy in greenhouse crop production to reduce fossil fuel based energy use and GHG emissions. A research paper on life cycle analysis of this system is available. Due to copyrights restrictions, I can only forward it personally if you are interested. Please let me know.

Susantha.

Dear Dr.  Susantha Jayasundara  and  Dr.Jamal F Hosseini

I will really appreciate your help. Con you please sent me that papers personally at this email: [email protected]

At the 6th World Energy Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, the following paper was presented (full program as pdf is given as link).

8TuO.12.5

Photovoltaic Greenhouses: A Feasible Solution

for Islands? Design, Operation, Monitoring and

Lessons Learned from a Real Case Study

Alessandra Scognamiglio 1) , F. Garde 2) , T. Ratsimba 2) , A. 

Monnier 3) and E. Scotto 3)

1) ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies,

Energy and Sustainable Economic Development,

Italy, 2) ESIROI, Université de La Réunion, France, 3)

Akuoenergy, France

The presentation highlighted the need for balancing the electricity production needs (ROI for the PV system owner) with the type of crops that can be grown in such greenhouses. Some crops such as tomatoes suffer from the high humidity (due to the shading by the PV modules, which leads to less evaporation of water from the soil), whereas others grow quite well; In the presentation, this was water melons.

I do not have the paper nor the presentation, but with the above information, it should be possible for you to contact the article authors.

http://wcpec6.com/pdf/wcpec_for_web.pdf

Thank you all for your great comments