Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They're not the only crop thriving in the shade.
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A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.

A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.

  • really@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s interesting. Guess now you can have farming and solar on the same land?

    • colourednumbers@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      When the temperatures rise further the effects of the shading can be positive. If the plants don’t have the high heat stress the yield could be better in the shade. Combined with the additional income from the solar panels there is a high incentive for farmers to use this technology.