A recent study shows that there’s one surprisingly big winner from placing solar panels over crops — farmworkers.
University of Arizona researcher Talitha Neesham-McTiernan revealed just how the shade and supporting structures of solar panels benefit workers in a press release on her team’s findings.
Much of the attention and research surrounding agrivoltaics examines how it affects crops, grazing animals, and the financial prospects of farmers. Neesham-McTiernan, however, picked up on something totally different in her work. Both laborers and researchers were intentionally using the shade of solar panels to beat the heat…