If large-scale solar projects can allow for the continued use of their land for agricultural production, 70% of US farmers are open to the idea of solar developments on their farmland, according to the results of a new survey from the Solar and Storage Industries Institute. The survey, which sought to measure the opinions about solar on farmland from hundreds of farmers and solar developers, plus some utility stakeholders, is the first of its kind in the US, and was used to build a new report laying out some of the barriers to new agrivoltaic projects.

The report is one part of a larger project which is being funded by the US DOE Foundational Agrivoltaic Research for Megawatt Scale (FARMS) program, with the aim of studying existing barriers to agrivoltaics and then developing recommendations to overcome them, as while there are a growing number of small agrivoltaics projects, only about a tenth of large-scale solar projects currently implement agrivoltaics in their design, per NREL.

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Source: Clean Technica

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