Combining Solar Panels With Agriculture

Greg barron gafford associate professor at the university of arizona shows that combining these two systems solar panel photovoltaic infrastructure and agriculture can create a mutually beneficial relationship.

Combining solar panels with agriculture.

Combining solar panels with agriculture makes land more productive november 24th 2017 by steve hanley solar panels are wonderful things but they do take up a lot of space especially for larger. With increasing temperatures solar panels get too hot to function properly and crops demand more water problems that are exacerbated by drought and climate conditions. In this paper we suggest that a combination of solar panels and food crops on the same land unit may maximise the. This practice of co locating the two by planting crops under the shade of solar panels is called agrivoltaics.

Solar plants using pv panels will therefore compete with agriculture for land. Greg barron gafford associate professor at the university of arizona shows that combining these two systems solar panels and agriculture can create a mutually. Combining solar panels and agriculture makes land more productive. Combining solar panel photovoltaic infrastructure and agriculture creates a mutually beneficial relationship.