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.
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That’s interesting. Guess now you can have farming and solar on the same land?
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.
Seems especially practical with hops since they’re grown on wires from poles already.
As soon as the Bavarians find out about that, Bavaria will be on its way to become CO2 neutral.
