Energy crops can help reduce the carbon footprint of the U.S. economy with a domestic source of a renewable fuel. Expanding energy crops, however, requires displacing other existing land uses.

On a grander scale, agrivoltaics can also contribute to the larger goal of cleaning up the food and agriculture industries ...

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These advances not only demonstrate the crop’s potential to contribute to renewable energy portfolios but also highlight its role in environmental restoration and carbon sequestration [1, 2, 3].

"We need energy crops to get the industry to scale," Hamilton said during the conference call of panel speakers. "Within the next years, we are going to see competitive production costs.

We did not want to repeat the U.S. fiasco of raising food prices for energy crops. Now we know that with agrivoltaics we can get more food while using solar technology to make electricity.

The 10-acre Alliant Energy Solar Farm at Iowa State University has a maximum energy output of 1.35 megawatts — enough to power around 200 homes at full capacity. Crops and pollinator mixes will ...

Planting short rotation energy crops on England's unused agricultural land could produce enough biomass to meet renewable energy targets without disrupting the food industry or the environment ...

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Maize’s popularity as an energy crop has been a major driver of this increase; 29,373 hectares were used for this purpose in 2014 compared to 87,589 in 2024 (an almost 200 per cent increase).