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.

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. By karen graham nov 27 2017 in environment. Solar farms are sprouting up everywhere and large utility scale. Combining solar panel photovoltaic infrastructure and agriculture creates a mutually beneficial relationship.

Solar plants using pv panels will therefore compete with agriculture for land. 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. Greg barron gafford associate professor at the university of arizona shows that combining these two systems solar panels and agriculture can create a mutually. This practice of co locating the two by planting crops under the shade of solar panels is called agrivoltaics.