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2022 MT2030 Climate Solutions Summit Recordings

The 2022 MT2030 Climate Solutions Summit was a unique opportunity for over 380 mountain community stakeholders to meet, collaborate, learn and accelerate their action on climate. In case you missed it, or want to watch any of the sessions again, many of the recordings and presentations and up on their website now.

By ARE, 2 monthsNovember 29, 2022 ago
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Laramie Fire Station 3 Completed 25kW Solar Project

Back in December last year, Laramie Fire Station 3 announced that it will generate its own clean, renewable power thanks to a funding award from Rocky Mountain Power’s Blue Sky program participants. The $39,465 funding was used to support the installation of a 25kW solar array and an electric vehicle charging station in Read more…

By ARE, 3 monthsNovember 16, 2022 ago
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Agrivoltaics: opportunities for agriculture and the energy transition

Climate change is making itself felt around the world and the agricultural sector in particular is feeling its immediate effects. This is why we need to take action now, realize the opportunities of research, and design climate protection measures so that food security and a sustainable supply of energy go Read more…

By ARE, 3 monthsNovember 8, 2022 ago
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Benefits of managed sheep grazing on solar photovoltaic sites

This presentation from Temple University shows the benefits of grazing sheep on solar sites. Benefits include dual income for farmers, vegetation management, soil health improvement, and carbon sequestration.

By ARE, 3 monthsNovember 8, 2022 ago
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New solar canopy for agrivoltaics from France

French solar company TSE has developed an agrivoltaic rotating canopy that allows large agricultural machinery to move under the panels. The solution consists of a rotating structure that can host bifacial solar modules at a height of more than 5.5 meters, with a four-post structure measuring 27 m x 11 Read more…

By ARE, 3 monthsNovember 8, 2022 ago
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Video: French farmers experiment with solar panels and farming

Solar energy developers and farmers in the Haute-Saône department of France have collaborated with installing solar panels onto farmlands on Oct. 12.

By ARE, 3 monthsNovember 8, 2022 ago
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Farming and solar power set to combine in Netherlands-based pilot project

Swedish energy firm Vattenfall has been given a permit to build a project in the Netherlands that plans to combine solar power with farming, in the latest example of how renewables and agriculture can potentially dovetail with one another. 

By ARE, 3 monthsOctober 28, 2022 ago
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This Colorado ‘solar garden’ is literally a farm under solar panels

Kominek’s farm, rebranded as Jack’s Solar Garden (Jack is his grandfather’s name), is part of a burgeoning industry known as agrivoltaics. It’s a relatively new field of research and Kominek’s farm is one of only about a dozen in the United States known to be experimenting with it.

By ARE, 3 monthsOctober 28, 2022 ago
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Turning the desert green: this solar panel system makes water (and grows food) out of thin air

Climate change has all kinds of ancillary effects beyond mere rising temperatures: from its effect on agriculture, water resources, cooling and wildlife ranges, when we talk about stopping climate change we are talking about a huge, multifaceted project. In other words, supplying reliable sources of water, energy, and food in a Read more…

By ARE, 3 monthsOctober 28, 2022 ago
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Solar Panel Ribbon Cutting at Laramie Fire Station

Hey Laramigos! Join ARE for a ribbon cutting event to celebrate the City of Laramie’s new solar installation at the Laramie Fire Department Station #3 on Friday, November 4th at 10am. The ribbon cutting celebrates another municipal 25kW solar array and a new ChargePoint EV Charger. This event is open Read more…

By ARE, 3 monthsOctober 26, 2022 ago

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