This guide serves as an introduction to the solar industry, relative to agrisolar development in the United States, community programs, and solar ownership or lease opportunities for homes, farms, and ranches. It covers ownership options for small-scale, single-user solar installations, community solar installations that distribute power throughout a community, and utility-scale installations that sell power to the utility, as well as common utility-scale land-lease components for landowners looking to allow a developer to construct and operate a solar installation on a portion of their land.

This report provides decision makers and others an overview of policy approaches to combining solar with agriculture and offers considerations on how regulations can facilitate dual-use.

In February of 2023, the AgriSolar Clearinghouse held an AgriSolar “Farm to Table” event  at Biosphere 2 in Tucson, Arizona, in conjunction with the GreenBiz23 conference. Similar to the AgriSolar Clearinghouse “Follow the Sun”…

Sheep grazing at the Mechanicsville site. By Anna Richmond-Mueller, NCAT Energy Analyst Located near Richmond, Virginia, the Mechanicsville solar park is one of the state’s first utility-scale solar sites. Covering over 220 acres, the…