Greenhouse and Its Integration with Photovoltaic System: An Application Perspective

Due to exponential rise in population in recent years, consumption of agricultural products is increased in the same trend. Therefore, it becomes a challenge to cater the need of individual in limited land. Further, crops have different cultivation requirements such as water level, temperature, humidity, wind speed, geographical location etc. which is affected by the climatic changes due to increase in greenhouse gas emission. The current global energy trends and climate challenges further drives force to move away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels. To mitigate the effect of climate variations, Greenhouse has proven as promisable solution for food security, enhanced crop production and promotes sustainability in controlled environment in global agricultural sector. Alternate energy source (Solar energy) is used to facilitate greenhouse in rural areas where electric grid is not available. An exhaustive study has been done in this paper to give a fresh application based approach for cultivation of various crops and vegetables using greenhouse.