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Designed to farm more than just solar energy, Jack’s Solar Garden is the largest commercially active ‘agrivoltaics’ system, researching a variety of crop and vegetation growth beneath the solar panels that generate 1.2 MW of electricity.
Colorado ‘solar garden’ is literally a farm under solar panels
When Byron Kominek returned home after the Peace Corps and later working as a diplomat in Africa, his family’s 24-acre farm near Boulder, Colo., was struggling to turn a profit.
"Our farm has mainly been hay producing for fifty years," Kominek told NPR’s Kirk Siegler on a recent chilly morning, the sun illuminating a dusting of snow on the foothills to his West. "This is a big change on one of our three pastures."
That big change is certainly an eye opener: 3,200 solar panels mounted on posts eight feet high above what used to be an alfalfa field on this patch of rolling farmland at the doorstep of the Rocky Mountains.
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