From increasing crop production and solar panel efficiency, to providing new land prospects in the face of dwindling solar project sites, to creating a sustainable, long-term food supply, there are myriad reasons why agrivoltaics, or the colocation of solar generating facilities with productive agricultural land, has grown rapidly from about 5 MW of installed solar capacity in 2012 to nearly 3 GW in 2020.

Regular readers of Solar Builder are probably familiar with the Rockport Maces Pond project, our Utility-Scale Project of the Year, which we featured in the Spring issue in a section on agrivoltaics/dual-use solar. Heck, maybe that’s why you all voted for it.

Built on a former landfill in Linden, New Jersey, Navisun’s Linden Hawk Rise community solar project, part of New Jersey’s Community Solar Energy Pilot Program, is nearly complete. The 4.5 MW project is converting previously unusable land into a productive solar farm which will bring affordable access to clean energy to about 800 residents, over half of whom are low-and moderate-income (LMI).

Navisun, a solar independent power producer, announced that its Linden Hawk Rise 4.5-MW community solar project in Union County, New Jersey, is nearing completion. Built on the city of Linden’s former landfill, this project is converting a previously unusable site into a productive solar farm that will provide more affordable clean energy access to about 800 residents in PSE&G utility territory, over half of whom are low- and moderate-income (LMI).

Navisun has completed two solar projects in Massachusetts for a total of 3.8 MW of solar power. These projects are among the first solar projects in the state to earn the new pollinator …