Solar Fields

As solar companies continue to target farms as prime real estate for their arrays, scientists at Cornell have turned their research to agrivoltaics — the method of combining agricultural production and solar panels on the same farmland space. WAMC's Capital Region Bureau Chief Dave Lucas discussed the effort with Matt Sturchio, a postdoctoral associate at Cornell’s Department of Natural Resources and the Environment.

(Airs 10/25/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: New York state celebrates a solar energy milestone, state colleges and universities wave application fees, and we get the latest state of the park report from the Adirondack Council.

Ground-mounted solar arrays take up a lot of space, and the ground around them is often wasted. An initiative in Vermont seeks to change that and use the…