One of the things many people still don’t realize is how much solar power and wind power help farmers to be more profitable or to become profitable. Agriculture has never been the easiest industry, but it has been getting especially challenging to make ends meet in some parts of the world and with some types of farming. Extra income from solar farms and wind farms can make all the difference.

I don’t think I’ve ever learned anything about cranberry farming, but, apparently, they are grown in bogs in the northern parts of the US — Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and New Jersey are the three largest producers in the country, in that order, while Oregon and Washington also contribute to the market. We now have news of a couple of cranberry bogs in Massachusetts that were out of service because of financial collapse but have now been saved by solar.

“Distributed Energy Infrastructure (DEI), a leading EPC provider for utility-scale solar and storage projects, announces the harvest of two groundbreaking cranberry agrivoltaics projects: the Black Cat Agrivoltaics Project in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the Ring Road Agrivoltaics Project in Kingston, Massachusetts. Together, these projects have produced the first-ever agrivoltaic cranberry harvests — a milestone for expanding agrivoltaic applications into challenging wetland environments,” DEI shares.

“ The projects are owned by developer Greenbacker Renewables were installed by Distributed. Cranberry farmer Iain Ward, who manages the bogs, was closely involved throughout design and construction to ensure that the sensitive wetland environment remained intact.

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