Combining Solar Panels With Agriculture

Combining solar panels and agriculture makes land more productive.

Combining solar panels with agriculture.

Combining solar panel photovoltaic infrastructure and agriculture creates a mutually beneficial relationship. By karen graham nov 27 2017 in environment. Solar farms are sprouting up everywhere and large utility scale. Greg barron gafford associate professor at the university of arizona shows that combining these two systems solar panels and agriculture can create a mutually.

In this paper we suggest that a combination of solar panels and food crops on the same land unit may maximise the. Solar plants using pv panels will therefore compete with agriculture for land. This practice of co locating the two by planting crops under the shade of solar panels is called agrivoltaics. This practice of co locating the two by planting crops under the shade of solar.