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Energy above. Harvest below.

Agrivoltaics is the heart of Green Energy Mines — solar raised over working farmland, so a single landscape produces clean power, food and livelihoods at once.

Why land is the question

The world needs more energy and more food — from the same ground.

Large solar plants and agriculture usually compete for the same land. Every hectare given to one is taken from the other.

Agrivoltaics refuses that trade-off. By lifting energy infrastructure above the field and designing it around cultivation, land stops being a cost of the energy transition and becomes one of its multipliers. For us, that is what a renewable energy mine should be: a place that produces more over time, not less.

How we design

Engineering land to serve more than one purpose.

Every agrivoltaic site is designed twice — once as a power plant, once as a farm — and only works when both designs agree.

01

Height with purpose

Structures raised high enough for people and farm machinery to work comfortably beneath them.

02

Light, managed

Row spacing and module layout tuned so crops receive the light they need through the day.

03

Crops that fit

Crop and fodder choices matched to the microclimate beneath the panels, informed by agronomy research.

04

Water & soil

Shade, drainage and soil health treated as design inputs — and monitored, not assumed.

05

Built to last

Infrastructure engineered for decades of operation alongside seasons of cultivation.

06

Partnership first

Long-term arrangements with landowners and farmers, agreed before anything is built.

Shared value

One field. Three winners.

Agrivoltaics works only if everyone connected to the land is better off with it than without it.

For farmers & landowners

Land that keeps working

Continued cultivation, long-term income from the same acreage and a partner invested in the land's health.

For energy buyers

Cleaner power with a story

Renewable electricity whose sourcing also supports agriculture and rural communities — a stronger foundation for sustainability reporting, backed by evidence.

For communities

Opportunity close to home

Infrastructure that brings work, skills and enterprise to rural regions rather than displacing them.

Rows of raised solar panels above green crops beside a river valley
Concept illustration — not a GEM project photograph
Our approach to evidence

Research first. Evidence next. Claims last.

Agrivoltaics is a young field. Its benefits depend on climate, crop, soil and design — and they must be proven on each site.

We build on the growing body of international research, validate crop and energy performance locally, and will report results as they are measured. Until then, we describe benefits as aims, not achievements.

Read: Fraunhofer ISE on agrivoltaics
Work with us

Your land can yield more than once.

We welcome conversations with landowners, farming families, agricultural researchers and energy buyers who share this vision.