German researchers found that agrivoltaics costs far exceed agricultural benefits, raising doubts about subsidies and ...
Norbut Solar Farms flipped the script on real estate development to long-term stewardship of land, generating renewable ...
The Portuguese company said its new Drone AgroPV Cleaning Agent is scheduled for release in June. It has a safe formulation for crops and soil.
Across rural America, solar energy projects are becoming increasingly common. With demand for renewable energy continuing to ...
It's a seemingly perfect scenario. Farmers discover incredible results after pairing livestock with solar panels: 'Given me a ...
Across experimental plots from Oregon to Alaska, farmers are finding that the same acre of land can grow food and electricity at once. By lifting solar panels above fields instead of replacing them, ...
Scientists have grown organic romaine lettuce under 13 different types of PV modules, in an unusual hot Canadian summer. Their analysis showed lettuce yields increased by over 400% compared to ...
A few years ago Nick Armentrout started seeing solar energy projects pop up all around his community in southern Maine. “I was rather alarmed and frankly not in support of the idea," he recalls.
Solar energy and agricultural production often find themselves competitors. Both have strong incentives to expand, and they share a key input: land. Solar developers continue ramping up solar ...
The effort to make renewable energy generation, specifically solar panels, and agricultural production compatible on the same plot of land, has become known as Agrivoltaics. Such research was launched ...
OACOMA, S.D. — Solar energy is nothing new, but a new concept called agrivoltaics is on the horizon. “That’s the coupling of solar energy with agriculture or farming in particular,” said Molly Brown, ...
It’s not easy to be a farmer in Virginia. Pests, weather, uncertain markets and access to capital are a perennial problem.