Agrivoltaics

[Axtremus]

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/agrivoltaics-solar-panels-french-wine-grapes/

The idea is to put solar panels over where you do agriculture. Generating electricity aside, you also gain more control over the temperature and amount of sun exposed to the areas below your solar panels, to the point where you get to do better agriculture than before (e.g., reduce irrigation needs, grow better/different crops, better protection from heat for grazing livestocks).

[Rontuner]

I would imagine this would also offer a bit of control as local weather patterns change??

[Steve Miller]

Just one problem.

Many of my local communities have banned solar panels because they’ll suck up all of the surrounding sunlight and the corn won’t grow.

True story.

[CHAS]

@Steve-Miller
Wish that were surprising.

Got a letter from a company offering to lease farmland to solar panel use.
The letter's wording reeked of fraud and the $$ offered what cheap.
Tossed it.