Combining Solar Panels With Agriculture

Greg barron gafford associate professor at the university of arizona shows that combining these two systems solar panel photovoltaic infrastructure and agriculture can create a mutually beneficial relationship.

Combining solar panels with agriculture.

Solar farms are sprouting up everywhere and large utility scale. Combining solar panel photovoltaic infrastructure and agriculture creates a mutually beneficial relationship. By karen graham nov 27 2017 in environment. Solar plants using pv panels will therefore compete with agriculture for land.

Combining solar panels and agriculture makes land more productive. This practice of co locating the two by planting crops under the shade of solar panels is called agrivoltaics. In this paper we suggest that a combination of solar panels and food crops on the same land unit may maximise the. Greg barron gafford associate professor at the university of arizona shows that combining these two systems solar panels and agriculture can create a mutually.