We already know how to grow food. We already know how to harvest sunlight. Greenlight simply puts the two together. It’s called agrivoltaics—the practice of growing crops beneath solar panels—and research has found that partial shade can benefit certain crops while reducing water demand.
Why put a garden and solar panels in two different places? Greenlight lets one familiar space do two jobs: grow food and generate clean energy.
The idea is simple: a garden you already understand, with a solar canopy that makes the same space work twice as hard.
University of Arizona researchers modeling agrivoltaic system designs across the Southwest found that certain crop and array combinations can, in some cases, double land output while cutting crop water needs dramatically.
Source: University of Arizona, salsav.org