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Joshua M. Pearce, John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University

The gift that keeps on giving: How solar panels on farms can help increase crop yields

An agrivoltaic setup in southern Ontario. (U. Jamil), CC BY

Solar farm projects in the Canadian province of Alberta have been put on hold or cancelled because of a recent increase in regulations in the province. The new regulations ban solar panels from agricultural land and force solar developers to fully fund decommissioning upfront.

As a result, many originally profitable projects have been made unfeasible because of rules aimed at preventing a repeat of the orphaned oil and gas wells fiasco.

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