Rural Renaissance by L. Michelle Moore

Author:L. Michelle Moore [Moore, L. Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642831979
Publisher: Island Press

Agrivoltaics enable solar and food production to work together, for the benefit of both. (Original graphic.)

Rob Davis, the director of the Center for Pollinators in Energy with Fresh Energy out of Minnesota, is a leader in this global community. I first met Davis through the team at The Ray, a nonprofit proving ground for sustainable highway technologies that had succeeded in getting a 1 MW right-of-way pollinator-friendly solar demonstration project written into the 2016 Integrated Resource Plan approved by the Georgia PSC. At the time, the idea of pollinator-friendly solar was nascent, but emerging rapidly. Just one year later, in 2018, Minnesota’s Xcel Energy would become the first utility in the United States to require developers to submit a pollinator plan as a part of their solar project. To date, seven states have followed Minnesota’s lead, passing voluntary pollinator-friendly solar guidelines, and the State of Virginia has created a voluntary Pollinator Smart solar program to help developers apply best practices and identify the optimal native plants to use.9 Though not yet widespread, pollinator-friendly solar—and agrivoltaics—will become household words, if Davis has his way. In March 2021, he launched a campaign to produce a pollinator-friendly solar Lego set that needs just ten thousand votes to go into broad production.

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