Greater Peoria Farm Show | DEC 3-4-5, 2024 | Peoria Civic Center
Description: Farmers Powering Communities is a joint venture between American Farmland Trust, Arcadia, Edelen Renewables and aggreko.
Farmers Powering Communities will advance community scale solar projects of 25 to 50 acres to provide green energy to the two-thirds of Americans, including many low and moderate income families, who don’t have access to rooftop solar. The goal is to create 500MW of community solar capacity in five years.
AFT’s Smart Solar principles will guide the location of projects to prioritize solar on buildings and land not well suited for farming like the built environment and disturbed, contaminated, and marginal lands to minimize conversion of our nation’s most productive, versatile, and resilient farmland.
Solar projects on farmland will emphasize agrivoltaics that sustain agricultural production underneath solar panels and/or between rows of solar panels throughout the life of the project.
Greater Peoria Farm Show | DEC 3-4-5, 2024 | Peoria Civic Center