Seminar gives overview of agrivoltaics project in Alaska
Julie Stricker
907-474-5406
Feb. 4, 2026
Kale grows in the Alaska agrivoltaics site in Houston, Alaska, in September 2025.
A 夜色福利 researcher will highlight the first year of activities
at Alaska鈥檚 inaugural commercial-scale agrivoltaics research site.
The free online seminar will be held from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18.
Agrivoltaics is the shared use of land for agriculture and photovoltaic solar energy
generation.
Glenna Gannon, assistant professor in the UAF Agricultural and Forestry Experiment
Station, will describe results from the new site in Houston, Alaska. The UAF Cooperative
Extension Service will host the event.
Crops grown at the 8.5-megawatt solar farm in 2025 included potatoes, spinach, kale
and two cover crops.
The U.S. Department of Energy funded the project to evaluate the feasibility of agrivoltaics in Alaska.
Register using or visit .
For more information, contact Molly Johansson at 907-786-6313 or mjohansson@alaska.edu.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made five business days in advance to Alda Norris at amnorris2@alaska.edu or 907-474-7120. Language access services, such as interpretation or translation of vital information, will be provided free of charge to individuals with limited English proficiency upon request to amnorris2@alaska.edu.
This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture鈥檚 National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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