Vertical farming - energy market integration: opportunities and challenges
垂直農法とエネルギー市場の統合：機会と課題 (AI 翻訳)
Akhil S Anand, Hannes Pravida, Fredrik Fossan-Waage, Tormod Skorpe Skjolden, Giulia Robbiani, Younes Zahraoui, Emil Wolff Anthony, Jayaprakash Rajasekharan, Sissel Torre, Knut Asbjørn Solhaug, Sebastien Gros
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日本語
垂直農法は持続可能な都市型食料生産の可能性を持つが、高いエネルギーコストが課題である。本論文は、垂直農場がエネルギー市場（前日市場、バランシング市場、柔軟性市場）に参加し、変動する照明・空調制御を通じて収益を得る機会を検討する。しかし、植物の可変光への反応に関する知識不足が実装の障壁であると指摘し、実験結果も示す。
English
Vertical farming faces high energy costs, but could reduce them by participating in energy markets. This paper explores opportunities for vertical farms to provide flexibility services (day-ahead, balancing, flexibility markets) by adjusting lighting and climate control. It identifies gaps in understanding plant responses to variable lighting as key barriers and presents small-scale experiments illustrating challenges.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本でも植物工場が普及しつつあり、電力市場への参加はコスト削減に寄与する可能性がある。ただし、本論文は欧州の市場設計に基づいており、日本固有の需給調整市場との整合性は別途検討が必要。
In the global GX context
As renewable energy penetration increases globally, demand-side flexibility becomes crucial. This paper connects controlled environment agriculture to energy markets, offering a novel pathway for sector coupling and revenue diversification for vertical farms.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Exposes the research gap in plant responses to variable lighting, guiding future experimental work.
🏢実務担当者:Highlights the potential for vertical farm operators to generate additional revenue through energy market participation.
🏛政策担当者:Suggests that regulatory frameworks should support agricultural demand response to enhance grid stability.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Vertical farming is a controlled environment agriculture system with the potential to support resilient and scalable urban food production. However, its economic viability is challenged by high capital and operational costs, a substantial part of which is due to high energy expenditure. Meanwhile, global energy systems are undergoing rapid transformation due to increasing integration of renewable energy sources and the democratization of market-based mechanisms for maintaining grid stability. This evolving landscape creates an opportunity for vertical farms to participate in energy markets such as day-ahead, balancing, and flexibility markets by adjusting their energy usage for lighting and climate control in response to market signals. Doing so could reduce operational costs by reducing energy costs and generating additional revenue for providing services to the energy grid. This work examines the potential and challenges of integrating vertical farms as flexibility providers in energy markets. We discuss the relevant energy market structure and the potential economic benefits for vertical farms, and we formulate the underlying decision-making problem that governs this integration. We then identify gaps in understanding plant responses to variable lighting as critical barriers to implementation and outline research directions to address them. Finally, we support our discussion with small-scale laboratory experiments that illustrate the challenges of this integration.
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- openalex https://doi.org/10.3389/fhort.2026.1800376first seen 2026-05-15 17:04:42
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