Digital record of specimens, including voucher material, from the study
                        of a pollinator habitat restoration site under a commercial solar array in
                        Jackson County, Oregon, 2019

Graham, Maggie; Best, Lincoln; Moldenke, Andrew R.

doi:10.5399/osu/cat_osac.5.2.4855

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“…Planting pollinator habitat beneath traditional arrays or grazing livestock beneath the panels are two approaches that require minimal changes to traditional PV panel architecture. Pollinators provide an essential service for agricultural production [13,14] and livestock benefit from the shade provided by the panels [15,16]. Crop production in AV systems often requires adjustments to the PV panel architecture.…”

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Agrivoltaics Align with Green New Deal Goals While Supporting Investment in the US’ Rural Economy

2020

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Agrivoltaic systems combine solar photovoltaic energy production with agriculture to improve land-use efficiency. We provide an upper-bound reduced-order cost estimate for widespread implementation of Agrivoltaic systems in the United States. We find that 20% of the US’ total electricity generation can be met with Agrivoltaic systems if less than 1% of the annual US budget is invested into rural infrastructure. Simultaneously, Agrivoltaic systems align well with existing Green New Deal goals. Widescale installation of Agrivoltaic systems can lead to a carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction equivalent to removing 71,000 cars from the road annually and the creation of over 100,000 jobs in rural communities. Agrivoltaics provide a rare chance for true synergy: more food, more energy, lower water demand, lower carbon emissions, and more prosperous rural communities.

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Agrivoltaics Align with Green New Deal Goals While Supporting Investment in the US’ Rural Economy

2020

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Partial shading by solar panels delays bloom, increases floral abundance during the late-season for pollinators in a dryland, agrivoltaic ecosystem

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Habitat for pollinators is declining worldwide, threatening the health of both wild and agricultural ecosystems. Photovoltaic solar energy installation is booming, frequently near agricultural lands, where the land underneath ground-mounted photovoltaic panels is traditionally unused. Some solar developers and agriculturalists in the United States are filling the solar understory with habitat for pollinating insects in efforts to maximize land-use efficiency in agricultural lands. However, the impact of the solar panel canopy on the understory pollinator-plant community is unknown. Here we investigated the effects of solar arrays on plant composition, bloom timing and foraging behavior of pollinators from June to September (after peak bloom) in full shade plots and partial shade plots under solar panels as well as in full sun plots (controls) outside of the solar panels. We found that floral abundance increased and bloom timing was delayed in the partial shade plots, which has the potential to benefit late-season foragers in water-limited ecosystems. Pollinator abundance, diversity, and richness were similar in full sun and partial shade plots, both greater than in full shade. Pollinator-flower visitation rates did not differ among treatments at this scale. This demonstrates that pollinators will use habitat under solar arrays, despite variations in community structure across shade gradients. We anticipate that these findings will inform local farmers and solar developers who manage solar understories, as well as agriculture and pollinator health advocates as they seek land for pollinator habitat restoration in target areas.

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Digital record of specimens, including voucher material, from the study of a pollinator habitat restoration site under a commercial solar array in Jackson County, Oregon, 2019

Cited by 1,378 publications

References 2 publications

Agrivoltaics Align with Green New Deal Goals While Supporting Investment in the US’ Rural Economy

Agrivoltaics Align with Green New Deal Goals While Supporting Investment in the US’ Rural Economy

Partial shading by solar panels delays bloom, increases floral abundance during the late-season for pollinators in a dryland, agrivoltaic ecosystem

Insecta filtered data for inventories completeness analysis

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