NATIONAL AGRIVOLTAICS RESOURCES

Best Practices in AgriSolar

This guide covers the state-of-the-art best practices for growing crops, grazing, beekeeping, and creating pollinator habitat under and around solar arrays.

AgriSolar Clearinghouse

National Resource

Financial Information: Funding, Incentives, Tax Breaks, and Programs

This map provides links to solar financial incentives throughout the United States.

AgriSolar Clearinghouse

National Resource

AgriSolar Ownership: A Guide for Farmers, Ranchers, Communities, and Landowners to Co-locate Agricultural Production and Solar Generation

This guide serves as an introduction to the solar industry, relative to agrisolar development in the United States, community programs, and solar ownership or lease opportunities for homes, farms, and ranches.

AgriSolar Clearinghouse

National Resource

Solar Siting Guidelines for Farmland

This fact sheet highlights the priorities for smart solar siting on farmland.

American Farmland Trust

National Resource

Sheep Grazing Contract Template

This agreement template example, from the American Solar Grazing Association, Inc., is an example of a limited vegetation maintenance agreement between a solar site manager and a sheep farmer. The example includes terms of the agreement between parties and details regarding obligations under various circumstances for the duration of the contract.

American Solar Grazing Association

National Resource

What is Solar Grazing and How Does it Work?

This fact sheet overviews the fundamentals of solar grazing.

American Solar Grazing Association

National Resource

Solar and Multiuse Farming

This fact sheet overviews multiuse opportunities for solar projects.

American Solar Grazing Association and Solar Energy Industries Association

National Resource

Are you ready for solar power? Four essential steps to consider.

This document targets landowners / farmers / ranchers and lays out four essential steps you need to take to understand whether building your own solar array is right for you.

Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center

National Resource

Solar Design Considerations for Agrivoltaic Compatibility

This fact sheet explores important agrivoltaic design considerations, three solar racking designs, and their impacts on land management.

Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center

National Resource

Agrivoltaics Basics

This guide will offer an overview of potential agrivoltaic systems and confgurations, including benefts and tradeoffs of implementation.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

National Resource

Agrivoltaics Technical Assistance

This guide summarizes agrivoltaics technical assistance pathways, case studies, and deliverables from past participant involvement.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

National Resource

Agrivoltaics Groundwork

This guide provides an overview of the suggested foundational activities to undertake before building an agrivoltaic system to increase the overall impact, success, and longevity of your project.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

National Resource

Agrivoltaics Pathway

This guide provides an overview of the site-specifc planning and implementation steps needed to build an agrivoltaic project on your farm.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

National Resource

Agrivoltaic Designs and Configurations

This guide will inform the initial design of your agrivoltaic system to meet your farm’s needs and goals.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

National Resource

Agrivoltaics Data Portal

An open-access data repository to find, filter and analyze publications on teh topic of agrivoltaics form around the world.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

National Resource

Agrivoltaics Map

This dynamic map represents a census of agrivoltaic installations located across the United States. The map is constantly expanding as new sites are developed.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

National Resource

Conservation Guidance for Utility-Scale Solar Projects

This document provides a broad overview of possible conservation opportunities, considerations, and potential benefits of solar projects.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service

National Resource

Conservation Considerations for Solar Farms

This fact sheet provides conservation considerations regarding solar farms for a general audience.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service

National Resource

Rural Energy for America Program (REAP)

This resource overviews the REAP program, which provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - Rural Development

National Resource

Farmer's Guide to Going Solar

This guide helps answer some questions that farmers may have about going solar and agrivoltaics.

U.S. Department of Energy

National Resource

Homeowner’s Guide to the Federal Tax Credit for Solar Photovoltaics

This guide provides an overview of the federal investment tax credit for residential solar photovoltaics.

U.S. Department of Energy

National Resource

The Borrowers Guide to Financing Solar Energy Systems: A Federal Overview

This guide provides information that can assist both lenders and consumers in financing solar energy systems, which include both solar electric (photovoltaic) and solar thermal systems. It also includes information about other ways to make solar energy systems more affordable, as well as descriptions of special mortgage programs for energy-efficient homes.

U.S. Department of Energy

National Resource