Best Practices in AgriSolar

Authors: Stacie Peterson, NCAT AgriSolar Clearinghouse Director, and co-authors Chris Lent, Carl Little, Anna Richmond-Mueller, and Carl Bernsten, of NCAT; Greg A. Barron Gafford, Nesrine Rouini, Talitha H. Neesham-McTiernan, Tyler Swanson of the University of Arizona; Kai Lepley, James McCall, Jordan Martin, Alexis Pascaris, and Jordan Macknick of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); Leroy J. Walston, Heidi Hartmann, Laura Fox, Michael Ricketts, Ben Campbell, and Indraneel Bhandari of Argonne; Rob Davis; Alyssa Andrew, and Kevin Richardson of the American Solar Grazing Association; Austin Kinzer and Greg Plotkin of American Farmland Trust; and Heidi Kolbeck-Urlacher of the Center for Rural Affairs.

Platform: AgriSolar Clearinghouse

Published: February, 2025

Description:

This document is the culmination of the AgriSolar Clearinghouse’s grant funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The guide brings together experts from across the field of agrivoltaics to detail best practices for different agrivoltaic practices. I co-authored Chapter 12: Agrisolar Policy Overview. The chapter reviews agrivoltaics policy at the local, state, and federal level and provides hypothetical cases in which farmers can use agrivoltaic policies to establish an agrivoltaic operation.