Last Updated on: 1st June 2025, 10:21 am
The US agriculture industry is facing a tsunami of misfortune between trade wars, climate impacts, and a fresh round of colony collapse disorder that decimated the honeybee population last year. In one bright spot, new agrivoltaic projects demonstrate that solar energy, crops, and livestock can coexist on the same land, creating new opportunities for farmers to earn revenue while preserving the land from development into shopping malls, housing developments, fulfillment centers and the like.
Farming-Friendly Solar Power Plants
The science behind the agrivoltaic movement began to emerge in force during the first Trump administration, as researchers assembled evidence that some plants can thrive in between solar panels, despite the shade they cast — or, in some cases, because the shade provides a beneficial cooling environment (see more solar-plus-farming background here).
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