A Citicore solar installation in teh Visayas. (Citicore photo)
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One of the biggest criticisms of utility-scale solar is that it competes with agriculture for land. As countries race to add more renewable energy, that debate has become increasingly relevant in the Philippines, where arable land is both limited and economically important.
Agrivoltaics offers a different approach. Instead of converting farmland into solar farms, the concept allows both to coexist. Solar panels generate electricity while crops continue to grow underneath or between the arrays, allowing a single piece of land to produce both food and clean energy.
The Philippines is beginning to put that concept into practice.
