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Floating solar power could help fight climate change — let’s get it right

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  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Agrivoltaics
Covering 10% of the world’s hydropower reservoirs with ‘floatovoltaics’ would install as much electrical capacity as is currently available for fossil-fuel power plants. But the environmental and social impacts must be assessed.

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$5M grant will fund study of how solar panels can boost crops

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has awarded the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences $5 million to build solar arrays at university farms in Ithaca and the Hudson Valley.

  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Hudson Valley Lab
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
An infrared gas analyzer assesses photosynthetic light response in radish plants grown on a solar farm near Albany, New York.

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Solar farm shade in the fall reduces radish and radicchio yields

A series of studies by Cornell researchers is testing how crops might grow when planted between rows of solar panels on a solar farm in New York state.

  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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