This competition challenges students and faculty from accredited colleges and universities across the Southeastern United States to develop scalable solutions for dual-use solar farms that allow for the co-location of solar energy production and agriculture. Dual-use solar farms, or agrivoltaics, is an emerging technology that can help in the following ways:
• Reduce competition for land
• Provide climate-smart solutions to improving land productivity
• Improve crop water-use efficiency, profitability, and economic resilience of agriculture.
Strata is offering an award of up to $25k for final-stage solutions and technologies that have achieved proof of concept. Submissions will be accepted ONLY between October 17, 2022 at 12PM EST & February 21, 2023 at 4PM EST. Winners will be announced at the 2023 UNC Clean Tech Summit in March 2023.