Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center

The Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center is hosting its 4th seminar in a series about the parts and parcels of #agrivoltaics at Colorado State University on October 24th in the Ballroom at the Lory Student Center. This seminar is about the buildout of a solar array - the engineering, how contracts are set up, the procurement of equipment, and the installation of the solar infrastructure. Come here from Aaron Ray of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Martin Beggs of McKinstry, Bryan Wegman of Namaste Solar, and Daniel Frey of Sandbox Solar discuss the engineering, procurement, and installation of solar arrays. Bring your detailed engineering or construction questions for these gentlemen to answer. This in-person only seminar is hosted in collaboration with University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University. We provide these seminars FOR FREE to students, faculty, and the general public. We offer a free drink and food after each seminar to encourage an hour of networking and collaboration building among attendees. Register now to get on our list: https://lnkd.in/g25PW3-p #solarenergy #construction #engineering #procurement

The Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center is hosting its 3rd free public seminar in its agrivoltaics seminar series on October 3rd at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder. This seminar focuses on Land Management Perspectives by Local Governments. Come hear Mike Flowers of the City of Thornton, Colorado talk about the 18,000 acres of agricultural land his team manages in Larimer & Weld Counties, Heather Swanson of the City of Boulder's Mountain Parks & Open Space discuss public land management and working with farmers/ranchers to improve soil health, Therese Glowacki of Boulder County Parks and Open Space share about her purview over tens of thousands of acres of agricultural and park lands and her thoughts on the future management of agricultural lands. Joining us as our moderator, Ted Kowalski of the Walton Family Foundation will share about his work in helping preserve Colorado's waters on land across our State. To better understand how to implement #agrivoltaics, we all need to better understand both the solar industry and land management practices to figure out how best to plan and build sites for long-term benefit to society. Doors open by 5:00pm and our speakers start at 5:30pm. Talks go until 7pm when we'll start a happy hour with pizza for attendees. PLEASE REGISTER in advance if you plan to attend: https://lnkd.in/eJC-pKGy

Are you in #FortCollins and haven't signed up yet for our FREE #Solardeveloper Seminar next week on Thursday September 19th? Well, now's the time! https://lnkd.in/gb4YgvQz Come hear from Mike Kruger of the Colorado Solar and Storage Association (COSSA), Brysen Daughton of Cloudbreak Energy, Patrick Kelly of Leeward Renewable Energy, LLC, Lindsey Guinther of Lightsource bp, and Noah Eckert of Redeux Energy. These kind folks will share about the trials and tribulations of getting a solar array built along with the opportunities they see for doing it all better. All this is put on FOR FREE by the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center, based at Jack's Solar Garden, in collaboration with Colorado State University and University of Colorado Boulder to provide FREE education to students, faculty, and the general public about all that goes into getting an #agrivoltaics project built. One must understand the solar industry in order to work well with them. The Longs Peak Room doors in the Lory Center on the CSU campus open for the seminar at ~5:00pm and it starts at 5:30pm. The program runs until 7:00pm when food and drink are served for a networking opportunity until a hard stop at 8:00pm. Reach out with any questions on our seminar series to info@coagrivoltaic.org.

Good morning LinkedIn world! This Thursday (Sept 5th) kicks off the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center's collaboration with University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University to provide FREE seminars to our local community around land stewardship and the solar industry - being the two key elements to #agrivoltaics. This Thursday at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Anja (Bendel) Richmond of the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory , Dan Bilello of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Rebecca Perrin of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gene Kelly from CSU, and Heidi VanGenderen of CU-Boulder will speak with me about the need for collaboration and interdisciplinary work to achieve greater societal goals - like agrivoltaics. Sign up for FREE at https://lnkd.in/ghQW6yXJ. Note we'll have some food and drink available after the talks for networking. PLEASE share with your Colorado-based colleagues! If you're coming from Fort Collins and study at or work for CSU, you can join our bus / vans departing from campus to the Dairy Arts Center at 4pm. This event will not be streamed online, it is in-person only. #collaboration #seminars #interdisciplinary #solarenergy #landstewarship

September 14th! Farm to Table Dinner at Jack's Solar Garden benefitting Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center and The Alliance for Collective Action. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gZCQsSmN

Join us on September 19th for a discussion on cattle in solar arrays! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gjgARGrm This is a free webinar that will be recorded and saved on our website - www.coagrivoltaic.org. Our speakers for this webinar are: Brad Heins of the University of Minnesota, Josh Bennett of EDF Renewables North America, Brent Huwa of Huwa Enterprises, and Stephen Herbert of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This is a timely webinar if you are intending to apply for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Solar Energy Technologies Office's Large Animal and Solar System Operations (LASSO) prize - https://lnkd.in/gXrpy8QD - as Phase 1 submissions open in September and close in March 2025. Do note that the image on the LASSO prize's page is of cattle under solar panels at Jack's Solar Garden in 2022 as is the image below in the flyer for this webinar though taken in May of 2024. Cattle within solar arrays is possible - likely more so than many reading this post will believe. If that's the case, join us for this webinar and think differently about how we can incorporate larger livestock in American-made solar arrays. #agrivoltaics #cattle #solarenergy #agriculture #innovation #ideas #learnings #energy #inspiration

The Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center is partnering with the University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University to co-host a seminar series about the constituent parts of #agrivoltaics - #solarenergy and #landmanagement. Seminars start September 5th at the Dairy Arts Center in the City of Boulder. The goal is to foster conversations and a deeper collaboration between the solar industry, land management professionals and researchers with students, faculty, and staff of Colorado’s largest universities. Sessions will offer opportunities for engagement with a panel discussion followed by a networking happy hour. Experts in the solar industry and land management professionals will speak to the challenges and opportunities in their fields, current trends, and the future of their work as it may relate to agrivoltaics. This series is open to all those mentioned above! Check out our website and register: https://lnkd.in/gYwevDVw Session information is being updated weekly. FINALLY, we're looking for students, faculty, and staff of the University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business, CSU College of Business | Management Dept, CU Boulder Engineering Alumni Engagement, CSU Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering, CSU College of Agricultural Sciences, CU Boulder - Environmental Studies Program (ENVS), CU Boulder Masters of the Environment (MENV) Graduate Program, CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences, CU Career Services, CSU College of Business | MBA Programs, CSU College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and others to share, attend, learn, and collaborate. Please do reach out if being involved in such a novel seminar series is of interest to your company or organization.

Want to see cows under solar panels? Plan to attend our Aug 15-16 workshop at Jack's Solar Garden. The Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center is hosting its second and final workshop of the season for up to 25 people. Research partners from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, University of Arizona, and Colorado State University come out to speak about their work, insights, and lead discussions from ecosystem services to how vegetables change with microclimates to how hard it is to bring back healthy grasslands once degradation occurs in our semi-arid climate. Sprout City Farms, the farming partner at Jack's, will showcase their work and the benefits of shade to farmers. Come get it a deep dive into #agrivoltaics at the most visited and most well-known agrivoltaic site in the US. Get your ticket today! https://lnkd.in/gmktkVYi Learn more about our nonprofit work at: https://lnkd.in/gs8xkDYz

This Thursday July 18th 1pm Colorado time - The Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center is hosting a FREE webinar on the University of Arizona's research into hashtag #agrivoltaics (specifically vegetable production) at Jack's Solar Garden spearheaded by Greg Barron-Gafford. His PhD students Kai Lepley and Talitha H. Neesham-McTiernan join him to explain their work in modeling agrivoltaics. This is FREE! Join in! Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/gP4f558e

Jack's Solar Garden is a model for how society can couple agricultural activities with solar developments as we've been doing it for almost 4 years now here in Boulder County, Colorado. The Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center provides in-depth #agrivoltaics workshops twice a year with our second and final workshop for 2024 scheduled August 15 &16. We have limited space available, so sign up now to join in! You'll get to learn from representatives of University of Arizona, Colorado State University, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sprout City Farms, and local grazers and conservationists engaged in agrivoltaics. Reach out with any questions about this workshop! And sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gmktkVYi