Growing Crops Under Solar Panels

In a future world leafy vegetables may not be grown in rows of crops under the sun.

Growing crops under solar panels.

The plants seem to love the modulated. 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. Photo courtesy of greg barron gafford a first run at a salsa garden of cilantro pepper and tomato was awesome barron gafford says.

Instead they may be grown indoors beneath tinted semi transparent solar panels that will allow farmers to grow. Crops grown underneath the panels required only half the water of those growing out in the open and grew well in the microclimate beneath the panels. At an arid arizona research site crops produce under solar panels needed half as much water as those grown in the open. Can raspberries grow under solar panels.