Agrivoltaics in Armsheim: how Ylektra brings agriculture and the energy transition together on 70 hectares

6 min read · Updat­ed on 22 Octo­ber 2026

The munic­i­pal­i­ty of Armsheim in the Ver­bands­ge­meinde Wörrstadt (Rhen­ish Hesse) has cleared the way for one of the largest agri­v­olta­ic projects in the region. On 10 June 2026, the munic­i­pal coun­cil approved the con­clu­sion of an urban devel­op­ment con­tract, the legal basis for build­ing an agri­v­olta­ic sys­tem with an out­put of around 50 megawatts on about 70 hectares west of the A 61 motor­way. The project is being devel­oped by Ylek­tra GmbH, a project devel­op­er spe­cial­is­ing in hybrid agri­v­olta­ic solu­tions.

What sounds at first glance like a rou­tine site announce­ment is in fact a blue­print project. It shows how, in one of Ger­many’s high­est-yield­ing arable regions, elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion and agri­cul­ture need not exclude each oth­er but have to com­ple­ment each oth­er.

In short: Ylek­tra GmbH is a project devel­op­er spe­cial­is­ing in agri­v­oltaics and bat­tery stor­age. As of July 2026, the com­pa­ny has a project pipeline of around 850 megawatts (MW) of agri­v­oltaics and hybrid ener­gy solu­tions in Ger­many, includ­ing the 50 MW project in Armsheim (Rhen­ish Hesse).

The Armsheim project at a glance

• Loca­tion: munic­i­pal­i­ty of Armsheim, Ver­bands­ge­meinde Wörrstadt, dis­trict of Alzey-Worms (Rhen­ish Hesse)
• Area: approx. 70 hectares, west of the A 61
• Out­put: around 50 megawatts
• Annu­al gen­er­a­tion: equiv­a­lent to the con­sump­tion of approx. 20,000 house­holds
• Con­tin­ued agri­cul­tur­al use: around 90 % of the land
• Sta­tus: urban devel­op­ment con­tract approved (10 June 2026); urban land-use plan­ning and amend­ment of the land-use plan will fol­low, with par­tic­i­pa­tion of the pub­lic and pub­lic agen­cies

This was pre­ced­ed by inten­sive coor­di­na­tion with the region­al plan­ning asso­ci­a­tion Rhein­hessen-Nahe, the Alzey-Worms dis­trict admin­is­tra­tion, the Rhineland-Palati­nate Cham­ber of Agri­cul­ture and oth­er spe­cial­ist author­i­ties. The process shows how much munic­i­pal and region­al coor­di­na­tion lies behind an agri­v­olta­ic project of this size.

How does dual use work in practice?

The core of agri­v­oltaics is using land for arable farm­ing and elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion at the same time. In Armsheim, Ylek­tra uses sin­gle-axis track­ing solar mod­ules with a row spac­ing of 13.5 metres. This results in a work­ing width of twelve metres between the mod­ule rows, enough for con­ven­tion­al farm machin­ery to con­tin­ue cul­ti­vat­ing the land.

The exist­ing crop rota­tion of sug­ar beet and cere­als is to be main­tained. Flow­er­ing and green strips are also planned under the mod­ule rows to con­tribute to bio­di­ver­si­ty. Com­bined with the shad­ing from the mod­ules, this can reduce evap­o­ra­tion. It can also sta­bilise the soil’s water bal­ance, espe­cial­ly dur­ing peri­ods of heat and drought. This effect is par­tic­u­lar­ly rel­e­vant in Rhen­ish Hesse, with its fer­tile but increas­ing­ly drought-prone soils.

Battery storage included: why this matters for the local power grid

In addi­tion to the mod­ules, Ylek­tra is plan­ning a large-scale bat­tery that can store the elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­at­ed for two to four hours. This makes it pos­si­ble to shift feed-in in time, away from gen­er­a­tion peaks towards times of high grid util­i­sa­tion or demand. For a local dis­tri­b­u­tion grid that is already under pres­sure from grow­ing solar feed-in, this makes a notice­able dif­fer­ence: less cur­tail­ment, more grid-sup­port­ing feed-in and more pre­dictable load flows.

This hybrid approach of agri­v­oltaics and bat­tery stor­age is no coin­ci­dence but part of Ylek­tra’s strat­e­gy: the com­pa­ny focus­es on devel­op­ing exact­ly such inte­grat­ed solu­tions in Ger­many.

What the project means for Armsheim and the Verbandsgemeinde Wörrstadt

For the munic­i­pal­i­ty, the project is more than a land use. In addi­tion to par­tic­i­pa­tion options under the Renew­able Ener­gy Sources Act (EEG), addi­tion­al munic­i­pal rev­enue may arise in the long term, mon­ey that stays direct­ly in the area.

“With this flag­ship project in the Ver­bands­ge­meinde Wörrstadt, we are show­ing that the ener­gy tran­si­tion and agri­cul­ture are not mutu­al­ly exclu­sive – they belong togeth­er,” says May­or Markus Con­rad. Local May­or Chris­t­ian Wertke adds that the project leaves the agri­cul­tur­al land “almost ful­ly pro­duc­tive” while giv­ing the munic­i­pal­i­ty a reli­able source of income.

Ylek­tra Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Dr. Michael Peters also places the deci­sion in a strate­gic con­text: “The deci­sion in Armsheim is a mile­stone. It proves that for­ward-look­ing munic­i­pal­i­ties can set the course for an intel­li­gent ener­gy tran­si­tion.”

Agrivoltaics in Germany: why projects like Armsheim are increasing right now

Armsheim does not stand alone. Agri­v­oltaics has become a dis­tinct, polit­i­cal­ly favoured seg­ment of the Ger­man solar mar­ket:

• For farm­ers, agri­v­oltaics fun­da­men­tal­ly changes the eco­nom­ics of a piece of land: unlike con­ven­tion­al ground-mount­ed leas­ing, where the arable yield is lost entire­ly, lease income and agri­cul­tur­al yield add up on most of the land with agri­v­oltaics.
• An analy­sis by Fraun­hofer ISE puts the tech­ni­cal poten­tial of agri­v­oltaics on par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­able land in Ger­many at around 500 gigawatts peak. In the­o­ry, that is enough to cov­er Ger­many’s solar expan­sion tar­gets up to 2040 on its own.

This is a deci­sive argu­ment espe­cial­ly in regions with par­tic­u­lar­ly good arable soils, such as Rhen­ish Hesse. A con­ven­tion­al ground-mount­ed sys­tem that removes the land from agri­cul­ture entire­ly could hard­ly be jus­ti­fied on such soils. Agri­v­oltaics resolves exact­ly this con­flict. Whether a piece of land is fun­da­men­tal­ly suit­able can be assessed using our overview of agri­v­olta­ic land poten­tial (in Ger­man).

Ylektra as a partner for municipalities and farmers

Ylek­tra GmbH spe­cialis­es in devel­op­ing exact­ly such hybrid agri­v­olta­ic projects, from the first site assess­ment and coor­di­na­tion with munic­i­pal­i­ties and author­i­ties through to imple­men­ta­tion includ­ing stor­age inte­gra­tion. As recent­ly as ear­ly 2026, Ylek­tra report­ed a project pipeline of 500 MW; it now stands at more than 850 MW. This shows how quick­ly the seg­ment of agri­v­oltaics with bat­tery stor­age is cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing in Ger­many.

The Armsheim project thus joins a grow­ing project pipeline. It illus­trates what mat­ters for agri­v­oltaics in dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed, inten­sive­ly farmed regions: close coor­di­na­tion with the munic­i­pal­i­ty, tech­ni­cal solu­tions that allow gen­uine con­tin­ued cul­ti­va­tion, and a con­cept that goes beyond pure elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion.

Frequently asked questions about agrivoltaics in Armsheim

What is agri­v­oltaics (Agri-PV)? Agri­v­oltaics refers to using agri­cul­tur­al land for arable farm­ing and solar pow­er gen­er­a­tion at the same time. Agri­cul­ture remains the main use of the land, and the solar sys­tem is added as a sec­ondary use.

How much of the Armsheim project area remains avail­able for farm­ing? Around 90 per cent of the approx. 70-hectare site can con­tin­ue to be cul­ti­vat­ed with con­ven­tion­al farm machin­ery. The exist­ing crop rota­tion of sug­ar beet and cere­als is to be main­tained.

How large is the planned sys­tem in Armsheim? The sys­tem is to reach an out­put of around 50 megawatts and gen­er­ate as much elec­tric­i­ty each year as approx. 20,000 house­holds con­sume.

When will con­struc­tion of the Armsheim agri­v­olta­ic sys­tem start? With the approval of the urban devel­op­ment con­tract on 10 June 2026, the legal frame­work is in place. Next come the urban land-use plan­ning pro­ce­dure and the amend­ment of the land-use plan of the Ver­bands­ge­meinde Wörrstadt, in which the pub­lic and author­i­ties are involved. A spe­cif­ic con­struc­tion start date has not yet been set.

Who is devel­op­ing the agri­v­olta­ic project in Armsheim? Ylek­tra GmbH, a project devel­op­er spe­cial­is­ing in hybrid agri­v­olta­ic sys­tems with bat­tery stor­age.

How does the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Armsheim ben­e­fit from the project? In addi­tion to par­tic­i­pa­tion options under the EEG, the munic­i­pal­i­ty can gen­er­ate addi­tion­al munic­i­pal rev­enue in the long term, while the land remains pre­dom­i­nant­ly pro­duc­tive for agri­cul­ture.

How large is Ylek­tra Gmb­H’s project pipeline? As of July 2026, Ylek­tra GmbH has a project pipeline of around 850 megawatts (MW) in agri­v­oltaics and bat­tery stor­age in Ger­many. In ear­ly 2026, the pipeline still stood at around 500 MW.

Are you a municipality, farmer or landowner?

Ylek­tra devel­ops agri­v­olta­ic projects that safe­guard agri­cul­ture rather than dis­place it, with expe­ri­ence from projects such as Armsheim, the Eifel and oth­er sites in Ger­many. Talk to us if you have land that could be suit­able for agri­v­oltaics.

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