Apple

Red apple and photovoltaic panels

Could the farms of the future harvest apples and solar energy at the same time? Michigan State University researchers are testing that question through a promising approach called agrivoltaics—integrating agriculture and solar power production on the same land. . It is one of the active agrivoltaic research projects - the idea of growing crops while harnessing the sun's energy - around the state. At the university's Hart Research and. . A $2.

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