Land owners and farmers in rural communities across Texas are reaping the economic benefits of leasing their land for the development of clean energy projects, and are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in land-lease payments each year, reports CNN.
The projects have also significantly boosted community tax revenue, allowing rural schools to build new facilities and…
Farmers and researchers have teamed up to experiment with installing solar panels over crops, a combination called 'agrivoltaics' that is showing promise, reports Axios.
Shade-loving crops like kale and root vegetables thrive under solar panels, and farmers and landowners benefit from a new way to profit off their land as they deal with economic uncertainty.
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Thanks to land lease payments from clean energy projects, farmers in Central Texas are managing to stay afloat financially in spite of an ongoing drought and record high temperatures that have forced some to cut crop production nearly in half, reports the Houston Chronicle.
“My banker is a lot happier knowing I have these windmills,” said…