Nowadays, we are heading towards global decarbonisation, with each sector involved contributing partial solutions to the problem, without realising that an overall vision is necessary. Photovoltaics emerged as a technology that requires a lot of surface area, which is why it has been integrated into buildings and other human infrastructures (BPVI). The effects of the implementation of AVS on an island have been analysed, observing the territory’s energy use, population, and social and topographical realities, collecting all the peculiarities that could be affected by a massive implementation of this technology. The method to be followed is a SWOT and TOWS analysis, widely employed in all types of scientific studies. The increase in the island’s resilience has been assessed, as has its decreasing its dependence on the outside. In this case, it has been observed that conventional PV is currently being installed on agricultural land to decarbonise electricity production, which mostly relies on oil and does not consider that the island is a territory with a high food dependence on the outside; a high unemployment rate; a high factor of soil desertification, meaning fires are frequent; a high rate of abandonment of agricultural land; and a shortage of flat land. Therefore, we affirm that the island’s carbon footprint will increase by not taking all these factors into account. In addition to punishing the local economy by destroying fertile soil, local food and jobs, the current method of energy production increases the need for subsidies to import food products from abroad. In addition, we claim that the use of AVS reduces the water needs of the crop, which is relevant on an island with great water scarcity. It is concluded that 11 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals would be improved with the use of agrovoltaic technology.

Today, on the island of Gran Canaria, conventional photovoltaic installations are being implemented on the ground, with the excuse that electricity production must be decarbonized. This is located on a highly populated island, with a shortage of flat land, and a high dependence on food, in a biodiversity hot spot on the planet. We would like to point out that agrivoltaics could provide a double solution and allow the carbon footprint of this human settlement to be further reduced. In addition, it provides greater resilience to climate change, and by reducing dependence on the outside, it would minimize the effects suffered by pandemics such as SARS-CoV-2. It would also help mitigate water stress in one area facing serious water shortage problems. The reduction of local CO₂ emissions would be achieved in four ways: production of clean electricity, reduction of the transport of fuel for electricity generation, reduction of the transport of food goods from abroad, and the absorption of CO₂ together with the emission of O₂ by the planted crops. It would also lead to greater job creation, a remedy against great soil desertification, stopping agricultural abandonment, and life in rural inland areas. This study analyzes two possible agrivoltaic installation configurations of equal power in a potato field: one with a vertical bifacial (VB) configuration and another with an optimum angle (OA). The monthly production is examined and, specifically, the economic income in the event of pouring all the production into the grid. All this takes into account the reality of the chosen place, the island of Gran Canaria (Spain).

Electrically isolated island power systems expose the limits of renewable expansion when installed capacity growth is not matched by sufficient flexibility and absorption capability. This study examines the transformation of Gran Canaria’s power system from 2016 to 2025 using hourly demand and technology-disaggregated generation data, together with reconstructed wind and photovoltaic capacity, to assess renewable penetration, residual load, ramping requirements, and potential renewable-surplus conditions. Wind capacity increased by 306.9% and photovoltaic capacity by 489.5%, while their combined generation rose by only 178.8% under relatively stable annual demand. Between 2016 and 2025, median wind-plus-photovoltaic penetration increased from 8.6% to 26.6%, the 95th percentile from 20.5% to 49.8%, and hours above 30% penetration increased from zero to 3857 h. Over the same period, residual load at 12:00 fell from 401.8 to 267.4 MW, while the maximum upward ramp increased from 81.1 to 163.4 MW/h. Using the fifth percentile of conventional thermal generation as reference, potential renewable surplus increased from 9.0 GWh in 2016 to 255.3 GWh in 2025, accelerating markedly from 2023 onward and totaling 543.1 GWh over the decade. These results show that effective renewable integration increasingly depends on flexibility, storage, demand response, and sector coupling rather than installed capacity alone.