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SCAPES Agrivoltaics Survey 

As agrivoltaics gain traction across the United States, research on barriers and opportunities for co-locating agriculture with solar is expanding. The SCAPES solar research project, led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has…
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Solar Panel Shade and Potential Health Impacts

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Stakeholder Engagement in Agrisolar: Co-producing Optimal Outcomes

This publication intends to inspire critical thinking about the importance of social aspects in agrisolar projects. We highlight considerations related to cultural landscapes, social acceptance, and participatory planning and offer lessons learned from case studies and a Stakeholder Engagement Plan to empower project planners and stakeholders. The intended audience for this chapter includes project planners, community developers, solar developers, researchers, landowners, and community members. While broad, the intent is to provide background, context, and considerations for these different audiences and an approach to meaningful engagement.
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Crops Uniquely Suited to Growth in Agrivoltaic Settings  

Gary Paul Nabhan, PhD., Agroecologist, Borderlands Restoration Network  When most Americans think of crop production, they tend to imagine crops growing in full sunlight to achieve their full potential for productivity. But over decades,there…
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Case Study: Existing Solar as Farmland Access for Emerging Farmers 

By Rob Davis, Connexus Energy  “Growing Farmers, Growing Foods” is the mission at Minnesota-based Big River Farms, a program of 501(c)3 nonprofit The Food Group. They recently won the North American Agrivoltaics Award for Best Solar…
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Ecosystem Services of Habitat-Friendly Solar Energy 

Leroy J. Walston, Heidi Hartmann, Laura Fox, Michael Ricketts, Ben Campbell, and Indraneel Bhandari, Argonne National Laboratory   This section highlights several types of agrivoltaic options related to ecosystem services that…
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Solar Grazing Best Management Practices 

American Solar Grazing Association  1. Introduction to Solar Grazing  …
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Case Study: MNL Pollinator Friendly Conservation Grazing

MNL is an organization with a mission to “Heal the Earth,” through ecological restoration and native species landscaping. As the organization progressed, they established projects on solar sites, including conservation grazing and prioritizing…
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Case Study: Caleb Scott, United Agrivoltaics

In 2012, Caleb Scott was working with solar developers to help seed and build sites. As he got more involved in the industry, his job expanded to help properly maintain these sites. Scott began mowing the solar sites but quickly realized it…
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Case Study: Julie Bishop, Solar Sheep LLC

American Solar Grazing Association Julie Bishop’s involvement in the solar grazing industry began with a snowball effect after receiving a herding dog. Once she acquired a herding dog for her grazing operation, she trained it in herding…
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Expanding Agrivoltaics in Massachusetts

For several years, NCAT has been highlighting the benefits of agrivoltaics through the AgriSolar Clearinghouse project. And just as there are significant benefits to agrivoltaics, there are also barriers that keep more sites from being…
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Tools for Building a Brighter and Greener Future 

By Dan Salas and Ben Campbell, University of Illinois Chicago Sustainable Landscapes Program   Building out the renewable energy capacity needed to make a clean energy transition is no easy task. Siting projects, engineering designs,…
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