A few years ago Nick Armentrout started seeing solar energy projects pop up all around his community in southern Maine. “I was rather alarmed and frankly not in support of the idea," he recalls.

Agrivoltaics could ease tensions between farmers and solar developers, and strengthen sustainability, but fragmented land-use laws remain a barrier. Rural communities in the United States continue to ...

A win-win is always welcome. But what about a win-win-win? Researchers say that’s what’s possible with agrivoltaics, a groundbreaking system that combines solar energy with agriculture. Some refer to ...

U.S. researchers are testing regenerative agrivoltaics at a farm in Southern California, combining solar panels with soil-restoring practices like composting, cover cropping, and no-till farming to ...

The integration of cropping with solar panels is almost non-existent in the UK, but it is the basis of the concept of agrivoltaics. First conceived by German physicists in the 1980s, it has become ...

OACOMA, S.D. — Solar energy is nothing new, but a new concept called agrivoltaics is on the horizon. “That’s the coupling of solar energy with agriculture or farming in particular,” said Molly Brown, ...

As his shoes sank in the mud in a research field on a recent hot summer day, Ian Skor walked along neatly placed rows of corn. A few paces later, he got to a different kind of row in the field of ...

Coloradans in the ag and energy fields are exploring new technologies to reach 100% renewable energy by 2040. These technologies were a point of discussion on the final day of the third annual Energy ...

Building resilience in renewable energy and food production is a fundamental challenge in today's changing world, especially in regions susceptible to heat and drought. Agrivoltaics, the co-locating ...

The solar panels in the fields at the University of Massachusetts Crop Research and Education Center don’t look like what most of us have come to expect. Instead of hunkering close to the earth, ...

The complexity of agrivoltaics is not rocket science, but rather lies in the field’s various interdisciplinary challenges, says Max Trommsdorff, head of group agrivoltaics at Fraunhofer Institute for ...