ENVELOPS · agrivoltaics: develop, design, operate
Feasibility studies for GGGI in Rwanda and Ethiopia. A 4 MW project in Fiji with a 25-year PPA. Pilots in Indonesia, Vietnam and Jamaica. 21 sites in Korea. 8 countries in all.
Why design and operation
Layout, clearance and pillar spacing change with shade tolerance. If machinery cannot get in, farming does not continue.
Korea's new Agrivoltaics Act extends the term to 23 years and reviews farming at every extension. Generation, crop and microclimate data are that evidence.
Feasibility, financial model, safeguards, risk allocation. Institutions decide on documents, not persuasion.
Solutions
Feasibility · Finance · Safeguards
Feasibility studies, project-finance models, environmental and social safeguards, investment concept notes, prepared to the standard institutions and lenders take straight into review.
Fiji 4 MW in development (GCF approval 2020; 25-year PPA 2023) · GGGI Rwanda and Ethiopia
Crop-specific shading · APV structures
Shading per crop, machinery paths and work safety are built into the design. Keeping farming viable is the regulatory requirement; it is also where most of the engineering is.
Naju · Bogor · Da Lat · Jamaica · Chiang Mai
SAMS data operation · farming verification
We monitor generation, crops and microclimate and produce the farming-verification and settlement reports required for the whole project term. Farming can be run on your behalf.
Agronomy 2026 · 3 patents · CTCN ASIA25
Projects
Smart Agrivoltaic Management System
Irradiance, temperature, humidity, wind, soil moisture and generation data are combined with crop growth models to operate the balance between shading and generation. At the Bogor dynamic pilot it controls panel angles.
Once the crop has the light it needs, the panels follow the sun and generate.
Shades the midday peak to lower leaf temperature and light stress.
Sheds rain toward the furrows, limiting crop damage and soil loss.
Lies flat so the wind passes over and the structure carries less load.
A steep tilt sheds snow before it builds up over the crop.
Closes flat at night to soften radiative cooling and frost damage.
More shade cuts evapotranspiration and holds soil moisture.
Angles are illustrative; on site SAMS sets them from the crop, the structure and local weather.
Research, patents, talks
2026.01
Bogor (Indonesia) agrivoltaics research published in Agronomy (2026, 16(1):116): under about 35% less incident radiation, soybean yield rose 106% in the wet season and 17% in the dry season
Source · Agronomy (DOI)
2026.08
Ovalau (Fiji) 200 kWp pilot study published in Agronomy (2026, 16(8):831): under about 60% shade, lettuce yield rose 54% and taro 14%; long bean and cucumber fell, chili and tomato set no fruit
Source · Agronomy (DOI)
2025.09.03
CTCN ASIA25 session presentation: "Smart Agrivoltaic Management System (SAMS)"
Source · CTCN (presentation PDF)
2026.07
Presented technology status and roadmap at the Agrivoltaics Future Forum 2026 (National Agricultural Museum, Suwon)
Source · Food and Climate (organiser)
Company
The name ENVELOPS means developing energy and the environment together. Since 2018 we have delivered agrivoltaic projects and feasibility studies in Korea, the Pacific, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and the 21 agrivoltaic sites in Korea are the KLES and ENVELOPS track record.
CASE, Jamaica · 50 kWp dynamic agrivoltaics · commissioned October 2025
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