Case Studies Illustrate How Agrivoltaics Preserves Farmland

In an installment in its “Paved Over” series, Farm Progress featured the stories of farms around the country that have adopted agrivoltaics as a way to increase farm income and protect farmland. Farmers have added solar energy production to agricultural enterprises from growing vegetables in Massachusetts to grazing sheep in Texas. In this news story, producers relate how solar panels can provide energy for on-farm value-added operations or generate energy for sale as an additional revenue source to help farms support multiple generations.