Meeting COP28’s renewable energy goals will require vast land, creating conflicts with agriculture and rural communities. Agrivoltaics, the practice of combining farming and solar power, offers a ...

Solar panels are no longer just lining barn roofs and field edges, they are rising directly above rows of vegetables, ...

Horticulure professor and chair Ajay Nair plants bell peppers at the Alliant Energy Solar Farm at Iowa State University in June 2024. Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – ...

PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Some four-legged friends are taking over solar farms in Pittsylvania County as part of Dominion Energy’s efforts to find agricultural uses for its solar farms. Local ...

Urban areas that preach sustainability should lead by example. Federal policy helped make solar energy one of America’s ...

Widespread changes to state laws related to farming and environmental protections are advancing in the state legislature, including in the annual Farm Act as well as other bills. Agriculture is North ...

IBERIA PARISH — A parishwide ban on solar farming in Iberia Parish may soon come to an end, as the parish council prepares to introduce a draft of a new ordinance that would regulate and allow ...

To keep solar farms from getting overrun with weeds, energy companies like Pivot Energy have been trading in traditional lawnmowers for an unconventional means: sheep. The field of agrivoltaics has ...

On a rural stretch of highway between Evansville and Mt. Vernon, Indiana, you will see fields of black rectangles glittering in the sun. "We'll call it 'true construction' began in May 2024," said Mat ...

Solar farms like this one in Lexington County have sprung up in South Carolina, but some people are complaining about the expansion into rural areas. Courtesy High Flyer South Carolina legislators are ...