DIGI-GROW – Digital Twin for Agrivoltaics (HIGHLIGHT)

Last updated: 23.8.2025

This project is a data-driven European initiative to optimise agrivoltaic systems for resilient and profitable agriculture.

The goal of the project is to build an open, farmer-friendly web platform for simulating, planning, and managing agrivoltaic production.

For this project, Avoin partners with experts from Germany, Spain, and Turkiye to develop an integrated simulation and decision-support web platform to optimise the dual use of land for crop production and solar energy. The tool combines meteorological, energy, and agronomic data to support farmers, advisors, and energy communities in real-time planning, monitoring, and resource management. Demonstration sites in Spain and Türkiye validate the system, while Finnish localisation is planned with national stakeholders.

Avoin´s work in the project is 70% funded by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland, as part of the ICT Agri-Food – ERA-Net scheme, which supports the bottom-up coordination of national and regional programmes in the European Union.

Status and news

Beta release expected in 2027.

Illustration: Tuula Cox, Avoin

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Duration

12/2024-12/2027

Offered expertise

Stakeholder co-creation, Scientific collaboration, Design, Data integration, Software engineering, Finnish localisation, Open-source, Communications

Openness

Free tool, mainly open data and code, except models

Partners

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Bettergy SL R&D, Avoin, Ege University

Grant ID

va-mmm-2024-22-3 

Links 

digi-grow.org