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Agrivoltaics
Agrivoltaics Research Projects
- Innovative Solar Practices Integrated with Rural Economies and Economies (InSPIRE) Project – funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
- Sustainability Colocating Agricultural and Photovoltaic Electricity Systems (SCAPES) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- The Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program – Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Clean Energy Innovation Center
- Jack’s Solar Garden and Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center – owned and managed by Byron Kominek
- Cooperative Extension: Maine Wild Blueberries – University of Maine Cooperative Extension
- Dual-Use Solar & Agriculture Research & Initiatives – University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst, Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment, Clean Energy Extension
- Sustainable Farm Agrivoltaic – Oregon State University, College of Agricultural Sciences
- Grazing and Solar Energy in Vermont’s Working Landscape – University of Vermont Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Agrivoltaics at Fraunhofer ISE
- Evaluation of the first agrivoltaic system in Sweden, Mälardalen University (MDU)
- Agrisolar – Solar Power Europe
Academic Resources
Colleen Collins, Solar Power to the People: A Call to Integrate Agrivoltaics into the Biden Administration’s Plans for Supporting Minority Farmers and Reducing Carbon Emissions, 45 ENVirons: Env’t L. & POL’y J. 149 (2022)
Alyssa C. Andrew, et al., Herbage Yield, Lamb Growth and Foraging Behavior in Agrivoltaic Production System, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (2021)
Bill Pedersen and Brooks Lamb, Center for Business and the Environment Yale (CBEY), Agrivoltaics: Producing Solar Energy While Protecting Farmland
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Agrivoltaics: Opportunities for Agriculture and the Energy Transition (Oct. 2020)
Genevieve Byrne, Farm and Energy Initiative, Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment, Farmland Solar Policy Design Toolkit (May 2020)
Jonathan Klavens, et al., Solar Project Development: The Special Case of Agrivoltaic Projects, 64 Boston Bar J. 29 (2020)
Stephan Schindele, et al., Implementation of agrophotovoltaics: Techno-economic analysis of the price-performance ratio and its policy implications, Applied Energy (2020)
Kyle W. Proctor, et al., Agrivoltaics Align with Green New Deal Goals While Supporting Investments in the US’ Rural Economy, Sustainability (2020)
Jessica Owley and Amy Wilson Morris, The New Agriculture: From Food Farms to Solar Farms, 44 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 409 (2019)
Greg A. Barron-Gafford, et al., Agrivoltaics provide mutual benefits across the food-energy-water nexus in drylands, Nature Sustainability (2019)
Axel Weselek, et al., Agrophotovoltaic systems: applications, challenges, and opportunities. A review, Agronomy for Sustainable Development (2019) 39: 35
Sekiyama, Takashi, Performance of Agrivoltaic Systems for Shade-Intolerant Crops: Land for Both Food and Clean Energy Production. Master’s thesis, Harvard Extension School (2019)
Rebecca R. Hernandez, et al., Techno-ecological synergies of solar energy for global sustainability, Nature Sustainability (2019)
Elnaz H. Adeh, et al., Solar PV Power Potential is Greatest Over Croplands, Scientific Reports (2019)
Hassanpour Adeh E, et al., Remarkable agrivoltaic influence on soil moisture, micrometeorology and water-use efficiency, PloS ONE (2018)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Understanding Emerging Impacts and Requirements Related to Utility-Scale Solar Development (Sep. 2016)
A. Goetzberger and A. Zastrow, On the Coexistence of Solar-Energy Conversion and Plant Cultivation, Int. J. Solar Energy, 1982, Vol. 1, pp. 55-69
