[Oscar Regen Tribe 🔺]

https://coloradosun.com/2023/01/22/colorado-solar-agriculture-agrivoltaics-lawmakers/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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Why the ground under Colorado solar panels is ripe for growing food

A Republican lawmaker has joined the previously Democrat-only push for solar agriculture, or agrivoltaics, priming Colorado to become a national leader

[Hapori]

Also good for grazing. Grazing animals keep the grass down, and panels provide them with shade, you can also collect rain off them.
You would need sturdy posts for cattle though, they like to scratch themselves…

[Oscar Regen Tribe 🔺]

Solar panels 4 meters above plants for optimal temperature management <div>
https://web.archive.org/web/20230401163803/https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/03/solar-panels-handle-heat-better-when-theyre-combined-with-crops/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf</div>

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by  Oscar Regen Tribe 🔺.

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Agrivoltaics = agriculture + photovoltaics
Agricultural activities performed underneath and around solar arrays:

 Crop production

 Grazing

 Pollinator Habitat and Apiaries

 Controlled Environment

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