Answering the Energy & Agriculture Emergencies in Farming Communities Pt 1
June 4 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Join the Solar Farm Summit community on Zoom or YouTube June 4 at 11AM ET for a preview of the incredibly robust program the 2025 Solar Farm Summit, the details about the student Dual-Use Design Competition and 2025 North American Agrivoltaics Awards finalists and voting process, and start digging into the foundational forces driving the dual-use development renaissance forward in the first of a short summer webinar series featuring our very own Executive Producer, and global macro strategist, Dan French!
A “new” solar renaissance is starting to add-value to agriculture and harvest compelling results around the world in revolutionary dual-use developments known as “agrivoltaics,” or solar farms able to be agriculturally productive while simultaneously producing electricity and thereby eliminating present land use tradeoffs. A French vineyard in Tressere this fall, for example, harvested +60% more chardonnay grapes of better quality with less irrigation in its solar tracking trellis–consistent with similar recent results achieving more and better quality grapes under solar panels in Italy.
Beyond clean and local electricity, solar can do more. A lot more. When developed with agriculture or conservation in mind, solar can do things otherwise hard or impossible to achieve. Solar can save farms, start farms, diversify production, preserve and protect land, create habitat and enhance biodiversity, and revitalize rural communities. It already is, here and there, but agrivoltaics is ready to scale to new heights of productivity.
With record growth in energy demand that is forecast to endure for a generation, America is going to need all the power it can get. And with rural America and farming communities still facing steep structural disadvantages, the need for broad investment and a virtuous cycle of sustained growth remains acute.
Can agrivoltaics match the problems plaguing farms and farming communities with the opportunities that the solar investment tsunami could offer? What will it take to cultivate the agrivoltaics opportunity in fields far and wide, effectively double the harvest, and reap the full potential of this rare stack of homegrown benefits? And can the a cornucopia of electrical and agricultural performance of these dual-use systems be harnessed to cultivate another order of local economic development opportunity entirely.
Don’t miss this free webinar June 4 at 11AM ET for the first in a short summer series exploring these questions and surveying the incredible breakthroughs being achieved in the nexus of agriculture and energy in these agrivoltaics and ecovoltaics enabled solar farms!
To learn more or register for the 2025 Solar Farm Summit, please visit: https://solarfarmsummit.com/
