Solar for Farmers Photo Gallery

NREL researcher Jordan Macknick works with teams from University of Massachusetts (UMass) Clean Energy Extension and Hyperion on a photovoltaic dual-use research project at the UMass Crop Animal Research and Education Center in South Deerfield, MA. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

The project is part of the DOE InSPIRE, which is seeking to improve the environmental compatibility and mutual benefits of solar development with agriculture and native landscapes. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

The project team is researching simultaneously growing crops under PV arrays while producing electricity from the panels. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

NREL researchers Jordan Macknick and Paul Torcellini along with UMass professor Stephen Herbert survey the test plot at the UMass Crop Animal Research and Education Center in South Deerfield, MA. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

These sheep live at the La Ola Solar Farm on Lanai Hawaii. They keep the weeds and grass trimmed down in the hard to reach places between and under the solar panels. Photo by Merrill Smith

Photograph from a project is part of the DOE InSPIRE initiative seeking to improve the environmental compatibility and mutual benefits of solar development with agriculture and native landscapes. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

Photograph from a project is part of the DOE InSPIRE initiative seeking to improve the environmental compatibility and mutual benefits of solar development with agriculture and native landscapes. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

NREL researcher Jordan Macknick works with teams from University of Massachusetts (UMass) Clean Energy Extension and Hyperion on a photovoltaic dual-use research project at the UMass Crop Animal Research and Education Center in South Deerfield, MA. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

NREL researcher Jordan Macknick works with teams from University of Massachusetts (UMass) Clean Energy Extension and Hyperion on a photovoltaic dual-use research project at the UMass Crop Animal Research and Education Center in South Deerfield, MA. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

The project is part of the DOE InSPIRE, which is seeking to improve the environmental compatibility and mutual benefits of solar development with agriculture and native landscapes. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

The project is part of the DOE InSPIRE, which is seeking to improve the environmental compatibility and mutual benefits of solar development with agriculture and native landscapes. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

The project team is researching simultaneously growing crops under PV arrays while producing electricity from the panels. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

The project team is researching simultaneously growing crops under PV arrays while producing electricity from the panels. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

NREL researchers Jordan Macknick and Paul Torcellini along with UMass professor Stephen Herbert survey the test plot at the UMass Crop Animal Research and Education Center in South Deerfield, MA. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

NREL researchers Jordan Macknick and Paul Torcellini along with UMass professor Stephen Herbert survey the test plot at the UMass Crop Animal Research and Education Center in South Deerfield, MA. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

These sheep live at the La Ola Solar Farm on Lanai Hawaii. They keep the weeds and grass trimmed down in the hard to reach places between and under the solar panels. Photo by Merrill Smith

These sheep live at the La Ola Solar Farm on Lanai Hawaii. They keep the weeds and grass trimmed down in the hard to reach places between and under the solar panels. Photo by Merrill Smith

Photograph from a project is part of the DOE InSPIRE initiative seeking to improve the environmental compatibility and mutual benefits of solar development with agriculture and native landscapes. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

Photograph from a project is part of the DOE InSPIRE initiative seeking to improve the environmental compatibility and mutual benefits of solar development with agriculture and native landscapes. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

Photograph from a project is part of the DOE InSPIRE initiative seeking to improve the environmental compatibility and mutual benefits of solar development with agriculture and native landscapes. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.

Photograph from a project is part of the DOE InSPIRE initiative seeking to improve the environmental compatibility and mutual benefits of solar development with agriculture and native landscapes. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL.