Solar Farm Summit

Save the dates for the 2025 Solar Farm Summit! North America's 1st dedicated dual-use development conference and agrivoltaics exhibition will dig even deeper into the essential solar energy and agriculture nexus during its 3rd supersized installment coming to Chicago's lakeshore August 4-7 at McCormick Place!! 2025 Solar Farm Summit attendees will enjoy another difference-making experience over 4 days of instructive and inspiring dual-use development programming with an enhanced and deeply immersive expo! Join us next August to plug into an uncommonly constructive community and discover an enriching and substance-first environment purpose-built to support peer-to-peer learning, showcase applied knowledge, speed adoption of best practices, cultivate good policy, and catalyze the ultimate construction of these ultra-productive solar farms unto ubiquity across North America and beyond. SFS25’s syllabus-style program will feature 100+ of today’s foremost experts taking up the full spectrum of working AgPV knowledge from entry-level agriculture, energy, agribusiness and solar development basics up to detailed case studies and project examples, technology demos, policy discussions, government program workshops, grants and financing seminars, as well as open town halls, Q&A forums, on-site technical assistance and off-site mobile tours! Special thanks to returning Title Sponsor American Farmland Trust! Visit the Solar Farm Summit website to access the conference archives, agrivoltaics index, job boards, blog and more: https://lnkd.in/gSZYgj8w Stay tuned for much, much more coming soon by following us here or subscribing to our emails on the SFS website!! #solar #energy #agriculture #farm #farming #solarfarming #solargrazing #agrivoltaics #ecovoltaics #savethedate #futureisbright

Looking back at the fantastic Farmer’s Forum from the 2024 Solar Farm Summit, starting with the brief "State of agrivoltaic deployment and research in the U.S." from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Jordan Macknick, who then moderated a constructive, candid, and deeply insightful panel of farmers including Iain Ward, Matt Riggs, Paul Knowlton, Sophia Lenarz-Coy, and John Langdon! Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gau_mG4T Submit a session idea for the 2025 Solar Farm Summit: https://lnkd.in/g5DXE9rq Access the past Solar Farm Summit conference archives (with presentations): https://lnkd.in/gpPStifu Access the Agrivoltaics Index (of resources and research): https://lnkd.in/g2c-SFcj Learn more about the Solar Farm Summit at: https://lnkd.in/gSZYgj8w Learn more about the North American Agrivoltaics Awards at:  https://lnkd.in/g5Vm8bYq #energy #agriculture #solar #farm #farming #solarfarm #solarfarming #agrivoltaics

The U.S. Department of Energy just announced the $11M Solar with Wildlife and Ecosystem Benefits 2 (SolWEB2) funding opportunity for research and development, technical assistance, and stakeholder engagement activities that improve the compatibility of large-scale solar facilities with wildlife and facilitate the dual use of land for agricultural and solar energy production. #agrivoltaics Register for an informational webinar on January 10 at 1 p.m. ET 👉 https://lnkd.in/ebwHxRAy Submit concept papers by February 14 👉 https://lnkd.in/ekQq9A8y

Save the dates for the 2025 Solar Farm Summit! North America's 1st dedicated dual-use development conference and agrivoltaics exhibition will dig even deeper into the essential solar energy and agriculture nexus during its 3rd supersized installment coming to Chicago's lakeshore August 4-7 at McCormick Place!! 2025 Solar Farm Summit attendees will enjoy another difference-making experience over 4 days of instructive and inspiring dual-use development programming with an enhanced and deeply immersive expo! Join us next August to plug into an uncommonly constructive community and discover an enriching and substance-first environment purpose-built to support peer-to-peer learning, showcase applied knowledge, speed adoption of best practices, cultivate good policy, and catalyze the ultimate construction of these ultra-productive solar farms unto ubiquity across North America and beyond. SFS25’s syllabus-style program will feature 100+ of today’s foremost experts taking up the full spectrum of working AgPV knowledge from entry-level agriculture, energy, agribusiness and solar development basics up to detailed case studies and project examples, technology demos, policy discussions, government program workshops, grants and financing seminars, as well as open town halls, Q&A forums, on-site technical assistance and off-site mobile tours! Special thanks to returning Title Sponsor American Farmland Trust! Visit the Solar Farm Summit website to access the conference archives, agrivoltaics index, job boards, blog and more: https://lnkd.in/gSZYgj8w Stay tuned for much, much more coming soon by following us here or subscribing to our emails on the SFS website!! #solar #energy #agriculture #farm #farming #solarfarming #solargrazing #agrivoltaics #ecovoltaics #savethedate #futureisbright

The Agrivoltaics Index and other keystones in the Solar Farm Summit resource cache have experienced a major update just in time for the New Year!! Check out these FREE resources with hundreds of links to agrivoltaics and ecovoltaics research, publications, articles and success stories from all over the world! It begins with a section of foundational, must-visit sites maintained by some of the very best organizations activating the agrivoltaics space as well as myriad links to many other resources relevant to dual-use solar development: https://lnkd.in/g2c-SFcj Check out the new ‘Studies & Stories' page here: https://lnkd.in/g-5axiNM And the new 'AgPV 101' page here: https://lnkd.in/gXCgDui7 We hope you find this information useful in your own efforts! And we wish you the very best in 2025 and beyond!! #solar #energy #farm #farming #solarfarming #agriculture #agrivoltaics #ecovoltaics #conservation

Looking back at the fantastic Farmer’s Forum from the 2024 Solar Farm Summit, starting with the brief "State of agrivoltaic deployment and research in the U.S." from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Jordan Macknick, who then moderated a constructive, candid, and deeply insightful panel of farmers including Iain Ward, Matt Riggs, Paul Knowlton, Sophia Lenarz-Coy, and John Langdon! Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gau_mG4T Submit a session idea for the 2025 Solar Farm Summit: https://lnkd.in/g5DXE9rq Access the past Solar Farm Summit conference archives (with presentations): https://lnkd.in/gpPStifu Access the Agrivoltaics Index (of resources and research): https://lnkd.in/g2c-SFcj Learn more about the Solar Farm Summit at: https://lnkd.in/gSZYgj8w Learn more about the North American Agrivoltaics Awards at:  https://lnkd.in/g5Vm8bYq #energy #agriculture #solar #farm #farming #solarfarm #solarfarming #agrivoltaics

Looking back at the fantastic Farmer’s Forum from the 2024 Solar Farm Summit, starting with the brief "State of agrivoltaic deployment and research in the U.S." from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Jordan Macknick, who then moderated a constructive, candid, and deeply insightful panel of farmers including Iain Ward, Matt Riggs, Paul Knowlton, Sophia Lenarz-Coy, and John Langdon! Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gau_mG4T Submit a session idea for the 2025 Solar Farm Summit: https://lnkd.in/g5DXE9rq Access the past Solar Farm Summit conference archives (with presentations): https://lnkd.in/gpPStifu Access the Agrivoltaics Index (of resources and research): https://lnkd.in/g2c-SFcj Learn more about the Solar Farm Summit at: https://lnkd.in/gSZYgj8w Learn more about the North American Agrivoltaics Awards at:  https://lnkd.in/g5Vm8bYq #energy #agriculture #solar #farm #farming #solarfarm #solarfarming #agrivoltaics

What better way to celebrate the holidays than with another round of the SolWEB funding opportunity!? The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) just announced the Solar with Wildlife and Ecosystem Benefits 2 (SolWEB2) funding opportunity, which will provide $11M for research and development, technical assistance, and stakeholder engagement activities that improve the compatibility of large-scale solar facilities with wildlife 🌞🦌 🐢🌞 and facilitate the dual use of land for agricultural and solar energy production. 🌞🌶️ 🥦 🌞 #agrivoltaics Join me for an informational webinar on January 9 at 3 p.m. ET! https://lnkd.in/eYzW8mQU

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USDA Will Pause Accepting Applications for the Inflation Reduction Act Funding under the Rural Energy for America Program You can read the stakeholder announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gYR7GjjK USDA Rural Development announced today that USDA will pause accepting Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) applications for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). IRA applications are those requesting federal grant funding of up to 50 percent of total eligible project costs. The last day to submit a new IRA application for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 funding will be December 31, 2024, at 4:30 PM local time in the respective applicant’s time zone. This decision was made due to the continued overwhelming response to the funding opportunities made possible by IRA.