Sharing the sky: The case for agrivoltaics

Renew Australia, Other, 06/01/2021
Panels in agrivoltaic farms can be used in a variety of creative ways. Here, at a farm in Dornbin, Austria, they shield tomato plants from the sun. […] According to ClimateWorks Australia’s report Land Use Futures, produced this year in collaboration with Deakin University and the CSIRO, some 53% of Australia’s area is already used for agricultureincluding an intensive use zone concentrated around the southern and eastern coasts, which covers only 13% of our landmass but is responsible for almost all irrigated farming and a third of the agricultural sector’s output.

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