A University of Wyoming student team’s entry so far is scoring near the top in an international competition to design zero-energy buildings. The solar-powered home in the foothills of Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains is part of the 2023 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 20th annual Solar Decathlon Build Challenge. A Read more…
On Feb. 15, the Alliance for Renewable Energy teamed up with the Wyoming solar installation company, Creative Energies, to host a webinar on the newly expanded Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that provides grants to rural small businesses and agricultural producers for renewable Read more…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Solar energy developers and farmers in the Haute-Saône department of France have collaborated with installing solar panels onto farmlands on Oct. 12.
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.
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.