Growing Solar
Win-Win Solar Farming
Solar energy farms often compete with traditional farms for the same amount of land 🌾☀️.
Agrivoltaic farming is the practice of growing crops underneath solar panels 🌱🔆.
On these new, hybrid farms, solar panels are installed 2-3 meters off the ground, shielding crops from hail, winds, and harsh weather 🌬️🌦️.
This forest-like shading 🌳 also helps the plants retain moisture 💧 and stimulates them to grow bigger, producing higher yields 🍅🥬.
The plants, in turn, "sweat" 💦, which cools the panels and boosts their performance ⚡.
The energy generated gives food farmers an additional revenue stream 💰 to carry them through difficult crop years, as well as providing power for them and the local electric grid 🔌🏡.
Great success is being reported from around the world 🌍✨.
A small farm in Colorado 🇺🇸 grows a variety of vegetables while generating enough electricity to power 300 homes 🏡🔋.
In Kenya 🇰🇪, the panels create power ⚡ while also reducing import costs by increasing the crop varieties that can be grown in the hot, arid region 🌵🥕.
And in Japan 🇯🇵, 2,000 solar panels generate electricity to power more than 32,000 homes, while shading 120 different kinds of crops 🌾🍆.
By harvesting the sun twice ☀️🌿, Agrivoltaics may someday feed the world and meet our energy needs for generations to come 🌍💡.
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