Growing Plants, Power, and Partnerships Through Agrivoltaics: Solar and Agriculture Pair Well Together, Thanks to Planning and Cooperation
in the emerging field. The project adopts a big-tent approach to agrivoltaics, welcoming any dual use of solar-occupied land that provides ecological or agricultural benefits. That could mean grazing cattle or sheep, growing crops, cultivating pollinator-friendly native plants, or providing ecosystem services and restoring degraded soil.about the first round of InSPIRE to learn how agrivoltaics could be a win-win-win for food, water, and renewable energy.
Kelly Speakes-Backman, principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, tastes the difference between the control group lettuce and experimental lettuce grown in the agrivoltaic facility at Jack’s Solar Garden. Photo by Joe DelNero, NREL.
Across the many different types of solar and agricultural sites that participated in InSPIRE’s second round, a key lesson emerged: Partnerships matter. Agrivoltaics is not necessarily more expensive than traditional solar development, but it can be more complex. “Solar projects are commonly built on agricultural lands, which then creates the challenge of balancing food security with increasing renewable energy production,” said Brittany Staie, an NREL research intern studying decarbonization of the agricultural sector. “Agrivoltaics gives us the opportunity to explore growing food while also producing clean electricity on the same piece of land.
NREL’s PV-SMaRT project is conducting field research at five sites across the country to measure how water runoff occurs at solar installations, including how construction techniques and vegetation can impact water runoff. This research could help local and state governments set new regulations that require smaller drainage basins for future solar installations, reducing the cost of solar energy.From the start, InSPIRE has acted as a home for the American agrivoltaics community.
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