My post about a Solar Farm in Currimao, Ilocos Norte which occupies over 200 hectares of a sandy beachhead in the town generated a lot of interests among followers of this page
Davao City Veteran Journalist Serafin Ledesma Jr. sent me a message sharing information on what he saw in his travels where Solar Farms were also used for agricultural activities.
This is something that Solar Companies in the Philippines should look into.
While most Solar Farms in the Philippines render agriculturally unproductive vast areas where the solar panels are installed, in many parts of the world, they have devised innovations on how to address this problem.
In the French Reunion Island located in the West Indian Ocean near Madagascar, both local farmers and renewable energy producers have come up with a meeting point by elevating the installation of the Solar Panels and growing vegetables in greenhouses underneath.
I saw a photo taken in Kosovo which showed sheep grazing under the Solar Panels thus producing livestock in the vast fields used for Solar Energy Production.
This system is called Agrivoltaic and this is something that could be adopted by Solar Companies in the Philippines to maximize the utilization of our limited land resources.
