Agrivoltaics in Southern California
Placing solar arrays over crops creates multiple benefits for farmers, communities, and the planet.
Read about the Robert Redford Conservancy's project on agrivoltaics — a first for Southern California.
of California's farmland can produce energy, save water, and grow food
Agrivoltaics in Action
Strategic collaboration with multiple partners amplifies the regenerative agriculture work of Pitzer College
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Partners include Climate Resolve, American Farmland Trust, IERCD, The Nature Conservancy, Pomona College, Cal Poly Pomona's Spadra Farm, and GRID Alternatives, a community-oriented nonprofit solar company. This study is funded by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research. Our curriculum is funded by US Bank.
Annie Voss is from a farm family in Ohio and is using her role as a Redford Conservancy Fellow to help build a curriculum for agrivoltaics.
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Pitzer's Robert Redford Conservancy's workforce development agrivoltaics curriculum will be the first of its kind in the United States.
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Climate change is hitting our farm communities hard. Agrivoltaics can improve labor conditions, and allow crops to survive a hotter, drier climate.
Agrivoltaics in the News
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The Future of Farming Comes to SoCal
California Agriculture Deputy Secretary Virginia Jameson Delivers Keynote at Launch of Region’s First Agrivoltaics Installation