Agri-PV in Europe 2026: What the Rules Actually Say, Market by Market

France caps coverage, Italy asks for a sworn production figure, Germany pays raised systems a small bonus but has never run a tender of its own, and Poland and the UK have no Agri-PV rules at all. Those rules matter, but they're rarely the last word. In all six markets in this guide a local or regional authority can stop a project the rules allow, and in four of them the grid can.

So the guide starts with one screening order for all six markets, cheapest check first. Then it sets the rulebooks side by side and shows what decides a project in each market.

What's inside

• Six checks in the order to run them, from the first map look to development spend, and what to do when a site fails one
• The physical checks that clear or kill a parcel before any rule applies: land per MWp, slope, how the crop takes shade, and what 5 km of connection costs in France and Italy
• What the EU decides and what it leaves to each country, from RED III permit deadlines to farm payments under panels
• The six markets compared on definition, farming test, support and who else decides, with coverage and clearance measured in each market's own terms
• The three things that decide a project in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland and the UK, each ending on the action to take, and what's changing next