Growing Crops Under Solar Panels

Photo courtesy of greg barron gafford a first run at a salsa garden of cilantro pepper and tomato was awesome barron gafford says.

Growing crops under solar panels.

Farming crops under solar panels a process called agrivoltaics can boost food production water savings and the efficiency of electricity production researchers report. Instead they may be grown indoors beneath tinted semi transparent solar panels that will allow farmers to grow. What may have been a crazy idea a few years ago it turns into a project in the netherlands. In a future world leafy vegetables may not be grown in rows of crops under the sun.

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. The jalapeños on the other hand took up 11 less co 2 under the panels showing that they missed the extra sunlight. The mass of peppers they produced however tripled under the solar panels. A dutch farm saw the deployment of 10 250 solar panels across.