California Agribusiness Uses Solar to Irrigate Crop
Those yummy California lemons, avocados, oranges, pistachios or cherries on your table right now could have been very sustainably grown using solar panels.
That’s because a giant California grower has just installed 1 MW of solar power to water their 7,000 acre farm. The 6,400 solar panels power pumps to bring water up from deep wells for irrigation.
(Normally these irrigation pumps are run by fossil fuels - one of the reasons that our food is so unsustainable.)
