Elevate solar farm panels to enable agrivoltaic farming

Elevate solar farm panels. Use less water, land, reduce imports, pollution, increase power and local grown fresh produce and meats, reduce threat of spreading fires.

Raise as many and all new solar farm panels to make room for below grazing and growing produce, applying Agrivoltaic best practice farming to meet Hawaii's challenges in air, water, land, housing, fresh produce, pollution, fires and business practices. Global studies justify applying Agrivoltaic to meet Hawaii's challenges.

• Ag saves precious water usage with partial shade from panels vs open air growing.

• Plants below emit rising moisture that cools panels, maximizing solar production.

• Plant leaves in partial shade tend to reach out further to sunshine, expanding leaves, producing more produce.

• More local grown fresh food reduces imports and polluting fossil fuel importing food.

• Piggyback solar and ag farming on same acre of land result in more land saved for housing.

• Both solar and ag farmers share land lease/rent resulting in more profit and economic stability, allowing them to pay back State's costs to elevate panels.

• Growing food reduces acres of dry grass that fuels fires. Saves costly rebuilding.