Bifacial Solar Panels: Best Choice for Farms and Agricultural Businesses
Want more energy per panel without the complications or extra cost of trackers? Bifacial solar panels offer farms the best of both worlds.
The Key to Greenhouse Farming Profits: Reducing Energy Costs
Learn how you can reduce energy costs for your greenhouse and increase profits. We walk you through changes you can max for maximum gains.
How to Reduce Your Poultry House’s Heating Costs in the Winter Months
Winter months are costly for poultry farms. Young chicks need warmth. Here are 6 ways to cut poultry house heating costs that should pay you back in under 5 years.
Is Agricultural Solar Financing Smart Business for Farmers?
Want to take your farm solar? Find out the 6 numbers that will tell you if agricultural solar financing can help you go solar but skip the large upfront cost.
How Many Solar Panels Should You Install on Your Hog Farm?
If you’re sick of paying ever-rising power bills, now is a great time to go solar. Determine how many solar panels on your hog farm will erase your utility bill.
Does Your Barn Have the Power to Host a Wedding?
Turn your Underused Barn Into a Wedding Venue – with Solar Power Barn wedding venues are for real. There’s a whole sub-industry of ranches, vineyards, and barns owned by people who’ve decided to rent them out as wedding venues instead of for traditional uses. Check out this blog for just [...]
On-Grid or Off-Grid Solar Power: What’s Best for Your Farm?
Farms have unique energy and water needs. So whenever people talk about solar power, it’s really important to distinguish between the needs of residences, commercial businesses, and farms. But even within farming, such a diversity of farm types exists that you really need to break it down further. Is it [...]
Should You Install Solar Panels on Your Barn?
Find Out Why Solar is the Best of Your 4 Options for Powering Your Barn Suppose you’ve got an old barn you want to modernize. Maybe it’s a small office so you can keep your records closer to where you work. Maybe it’s better lighting. Maybe it’s increased security or [...]
What is the REAP Grant? How Do I Apply?
(See below for two REAP case studies!) “I would encourage any farmer to look at it if they have access to the REAP grant. With a 25% cost share and the prices coming down so much, it’s become very affordable for farms to do this. I’m very pleased.” -Spencer Pope [...]
Q: How can I lower my farm’s use of energy to pump water?
A: Use Solar Powered Water Pumps Attention Farmers: See case study data below! This utility paid for farmers to install their solar energy systems! Farms need water. And there are only so many ways to get it to all the remote places that need it. Pumping water requires power, so [...]