Grasses growing in the shade of a solar array were only a little less productive than those growing nearby in open grassland during years of average and above-average rainfall – but in a dry year, the ...

Imagine you are a farmer struggling to keep up with production demands because of the increasingly stressful climate. Or perhaps you are a producer of renewable energy struggling with dramatic heat ...

Solar panels shade grassland at Jack's Solar Garden, an agrovoltaic farm in Longmont, Colo. Matthew Sturchio, CC BY-ND As societies look for ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate ...

Solar panels are no longer just lining barn roofs and field edges, they are rising directly above rows of vegetables, orchards and vineyards, reshaping how food and power are produced on the same ...

Linda Hezel harvests basil in the shade of the solar array on Aug. 5 at her farm in Kearney. “When it’s super brutal out, I’m so grateful for the shade,” Hezel said, adding that it’s safer to work ...

HUNTERTOWN, Ind. (WANE) — While high temperatures continue to blanket Indiana, this flock of sheep keeps cool in the shade underneath Northeastern REMC’s solar panels. Zach Warner, a local sheep ...

For 31 straight days last summer, temperatures in Phoenix hit or topped 110 degrees, the longest such streak ever. That searing Arizona heat dehydrates crops and evaporates water the state needs to ...

In an environmental feud that probably would only occur in California, two neighbors in Sunnyvale, a San Francisco suburb, have been feuding over eight prized redwood trees and the shade they provide, ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A new study by Oregon State University researchers found that shade provided by solar panels increased the abundance of flowers under the panels and delayed the timing of ...

Combining solar panel (photovoltaic) infrastructure and agriculture creates a mutually beneficial relationship. This practice of co-locating the two by planting crops under the shade of solar panels ...