How viable is grazing wool sheep on solar sites? Does wool production have the potential to help make grazing more economically sustainable? What are potential benefits and challenges to implementation? On our November ASGA call we’ll be taking up the threads of solar wool and discussing its potential for solar graziers. ASGA Board Member Nick…

How can innovative agrivoltaics programs address local community concerns, including impacts on agricultural land? What does the future of agrivoltaics look like from the perspective of a solar and energy storage developer?Join us for our December webinar with Chad Farrell, Amber Lessard, and Lauren Glickman from Encore Renewable Energy, an innovator in community-scale renewable energy and B-Corp based…

We’re kicking 2023 off with a discussion of agrivoltaics in New Jersey. David Specca from Rutgers University will discuss the exciting agrivoltaics and grazing research projects that the university's NJ Ag Experiment Station (NJAES) is developing with funding from the state’s recently passed Dual-use Solar Act (2021).

Join us for our February webinar with Minnesota Native Landscapes and their research partners on pollinator habitats at solar sites. Pollinator habitats continue to be an important issue for solar site development, both for their potential ecological benefits and because of their inclusion in legislation regulating dual use and solar siting. How pollinator habitats interact with grazing and vegetation management is a hot topic for the solar grazing world.

What does it take to manage a utility scale grazing and how do you get started? What are the roadblocks and what are the success stories? Join us for this panel discussion with ASGA members JR Howard, Ryan Indart, and Chad Raines who will answer your questions about utility-scale solar grazing and speak about their own experience, including…

Last year was an incredible year of growth for solar grazing and ASGA. At the annual meeting, we will highlight ASGA's achievements from 2022 and give you a preview of the exciting developments you can expect to see in 2023.  Members can expect to: vote in new board members, meet your leadership team, learn about programming…

What do solar graziers in New England and the Northeast need to know to prepare for grazing at scale? As a follow up to our March webinar on large-scale solar grazing in California and Texas, we've put together a discussion about scaling up to large site grazing in the northeastern United States. ASGA Members Alan…

Join us for our second webinar on potential markets for solar wool. For this webinar, we will explore the market opportunities for using U.S. wool fiber in erosion control products, which are used to stabilize weak soil.  Our speaker will be Rob Ament from Montana State University's Western Transportation Institute. He is pioneering domestic wool…

Note: our June webinar is happening on Tuesday June 6th instead of the normal first Wednesday of the month Join us for a webinar featuring Jim Malooley from Silicon Ranch. Jim will discuss their innovative, large-scale solar grazing programs in the Southeast and beyond. Silicon Ranch has developed exciting solar grazing programs to support regenerative…

It’s been a little while since we last heard an update on NREL’s (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) agrivoltaics research programs and tools.  For our July webinar, we’re pleased to be joined by Jordan Macknick and James McCall who will provide an overview of their agrivoltaics research through the InSPIRE project, with a focus on their…

What are the climate and environmental impacts of adding sheep to solar sites? How does solar grazing compare to conventional solar sites and to conventional sheep production? The potential impact solar grazing may have on reducing emissions is an important growth area for the future of the industry. For this month’s webinar, we’re introducing some…

We are excited to launch ASGA Certification™ for Solar Grazing Training. This innovative program lends ASGA’s seal of approval to qualified training courses and their graduates. Certification recognizes educational programs teaching key topics and best management practices fundamental to using sheep to manage vegetation on solar energy sites. ​Once a program is certified, students successfully…

Whether you're just getting into solar grazing or you're a long-time sheep farmer, managing sheep health in solar grazing is a major pain point that requires ongoing attention and accumulated experience. Preparing for common health issues and for the unexpected are key to keeping the sheep happy and your grazing operation running smoothly. For our…

For this month’s ASGA call, we’re taking a quick look across the Atlantic to hear about some of the latest solar grazing and agrivoltaics developments in Europe. We’ll be joined by Stephan Schindele, Head of Product Management Agri-PV at BayWa r.e., who oversees the exciting agrivoltaics projects they’re running in Europe. ​BayWa has been doing…

What goes into solar site construction and what should solar graziers know about it?For our December call, we’re excited to have Daniel Shapiro, Vice President of Projects and Construction at Lightsource bp, and his team give us an in-depth look at the solar site construction process and its basic components.They’ll discuss how a solar farm…

Solar grazing offers an important avenue for making solar sites more ecologically sustainable, but how can solar developers design and manage sites to ensure the site is eco-friendly from construction all the way through decommissioning? ​Tyler Kanczuzewsk and his team from Inovateus Solar will join us to discuss approaches to building solar projects with eco-friendly…