Virginia becomes fourth state to legally define agrivoltaics

Virginia just became the fourth state to legally define agrivoltaics — the practice of combining solar generation with farming on the same land. The move addresses two problems at once: the state is losing farmland fast (150,000 acres of cropland went idle between 1986 and 2018), and nearly two-thirds of its counties have restricted or banned large-scale solar. With 13 agrivoltaics projects...