Growing Crops Under Solar Panels

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.

Growing crops under solar panels.

Can raspberries grow under solar panels. A dutch farm saw the deployment of 10 250 solar panels across. Instead they may be grown indoors beneath tinted semi transparent solar panels that will allow farmers to grow. Photo courtesy of greg barron gafford a first run at a salsa garden of cilantro pepper and tomato was awesome barron gafford says.

What may have been a crazy idea a few years ago it turns into a project in the netherlands. The mass of peppers they produced however tripled under the solar panels. At an arid arizona research site crops produce under solar panels needed half as much water as those grown in the open. In a future world leafy vegetables may not be grown in rows of crops under the sun.