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Volkswagen hires 100 sheep to cut grass at Polish solar farm as experiment in agrivoltaics
(notesfrompoland.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2026
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"Agrivoltaics" is a new word to me, and it feels like it makes sense off of seeing it in this application.
It's a field of ongoing research. Mostly looking into which crops do best growing in shade. Raising sheep for whool under solar is pretty simple though as they just graze and rest under the shade of the panels. Goats would climb on the panels and possibly damage them.
I'm already invested in large scale projects in Germany