Agrivoltaics

 Acknowledgements

Material provided here is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Solar Energy Technologies Office Award Number DE-EE0009374. We gratefully acknowledge the following University of Massachusetts Amherst Extension Faculty and Staff for providing input into the design of the tools: Clem Clay, Dr. Giverson Mupambi, Dr. Sam Glaze-Corcoran, and Dr. Hilary Sandler. We are also grateful for input provide by Iain Ward (Solar Agricultural Services) and Julie Fine (American Farmland Trust). We also acknowledge American Farmland Trust and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, who kindly provided us with the “Conservation Innovation Grant Field Data Record - Natural Resource Conservation Service, Soil Health Division” template that we referred to as we built the Crop-Specific Log Book. Other elements of the Log Book and Whole-Farm Tool we used in our design include USDA Economic Research Service and National Agricultural Statistical Service data collection instruments and the Internal Revenue Service’s Schedule F Form. We also gratefully acknowledge our Project Advisory Committee for their review and input into the tool.