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Episode 11: Trading Acres for Amps: Solar Farming & Agrivoltaics
Forgotten Fields Project
43 minutes
7 months ago
Episode 11: Trading Acres for Amps: Solar Farming & Agrivoltaics
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Megan Seibel—Director of Virginia Agriculture Leaders Obtaining Results (VALOR), Co-Founder of the Center for Cooperative Problem Solving, and Senior Extension Specialist at Virginia Tech—to shed some light on the increasingly buzzy concept of agrivoltaics. What exactly is solar farming? Can agriculture and energy production truly share the same soil—or is one bound to crowd the other out? Dr. Seibel helps us navigate the brilliance and the blind spots: t...