Maine’s prime farmland is being lost to solar. Is ‘dual use’ the answer?
A report urges developers to build dual-use projects with elevated panels that permit farming and grazing beneath. Critics say the approach is not yet affordable.
A report urges developers to build dual-use projects with elevated panels that permit farming and grazing beneath. Critics say the approach is not yet affordable.
Thanksgiving is all about sharing our bounty with family, friends, and neighbors.
Agrivoltaics, or the colocation of solar generating facilities with productive agricultural land, has grown rapidly from about 5 MW of installed solar capacity in 2012 to nearly 3 GW in 2020.
The project, developed by BlueWave, owned and operated by Navisun, is an agrivoltaic community solar project built on a wild blueberry farm. The project aims to not only deliver clean energy (and energy savings) to the local community as a community solar farm, but also to improve the yield of the wild blueberry harvest on site as part of the actual farm.
Developers say industrial-scale farms are needed to meet the nation’s climate goals, but locals are fighting back against what they see as an encroachment on their pastoral settings.
OPINION: DUAL-USE FARMLAND IS AN IMPORTANT TOOL FOR DIVERSIFYING A FARMER'S INCOME