Rutgers’ Agrivoltaics wins solar farm award

SNJ TODAY – The North American Agrivoltaics Awards program announced recently that Rutgers’ work in agrivoltaics has won its “Solar Farm of 2025” award. For the past several years, a project at Rutgers University, the Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program (RAP), has been focused on “agrivoltaics,” also known as “dual-use” solar, and is showing that a farm’s energy needs and expenses can be lowered through the use of solar panels in fields, while at the same time allowing the sun to nurture crops planted beneath those panels …