Growing Crops Under Solar Panels

Instead they may be grown indoors beneath tinted semi transparent solar panels that will allow farmers to grow.

Growing crops under solar panels. Can raspberries grow under solar panels. A dutch farm saw the deployment of 10 250 solar panels across. The mass of peppers they produced however tripled under the solar panels. What may have been a crazy idea a few years ago it turns into a project in the netherlands.

Farming crops under solar panels a process called agrivoltaics can boost food production water savings and the efficiency of electricity production researchers report. The jalapeños on the other hand took up 11 less co 2 under the panels showing that they missed the extra sunlight. At an arid arizona research site crops produce under solar panels needed half as much water as those grown in the open. Photo courtesy of greg barron gafford a first run at a salsa garden of cilantro pepper and tomato was awesome barron gafford says.