Remember, the oil companies aren't in the oil business. They're in the MONEY business. And they know where things are going.

It makes sense that there is a partnership for this. Farmers will get another revenue source for leasing their land. Crops can fail or even worse there can be crazy swings in the commodities markets farmers sell in. Getting guaranteed income will give them more stability in the long run.

Solar panels should be built over parking lots

The thing I don’t like is how they are allowing oil companies to also control the next energy wave which let’s me know the cost of energy will never go down

Cool idea that should continually get better as knowledge and technology increase. I’m interested to see how all parties innovate to viably produce things other than sheep and honey.

While there are some use cases for this, centralizing power generation is mostly a way to keep the power in utility companies' hands. Point-of-use generation putting solar on the roofs we already have, the land we've already covered with buildings, leaves agricultural land for productive agricultural use. And takes power away from the big for-profit utilities screwing us all.

With proper planning for height cattle can be run under them too. Goats are and issue as they like to jump. Local large dairy herd has solar panels covering a major pasture area and you often see cows under them in the shade on hot days, two fit fine and based on watching them each cow has their friend and panel. Crops would be a problem due to all the supports. Free range chickens may work, but getting on the panels may be an issue.

Cool to see this is helping out farmers many family farms are disappearing working and living on the farm was alot of fun growing up .

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I've been hoping that this would take off for years. It's so exciting to see it get started. I hope it'seffective and works out.

One of the major benefits of solar is that it can be localized to the exact location that needs the power. Creating these giant solar farms is just another way for corporations to siphon off funding from the government for green projects, and centralize the power distribution and the ability to profiteer off of it for themselves. Instead of subsidizing these fossil fuel companies, any allocated money should be distributed to the people or towards local governments to install free or steeply discounted solar panels onto people’s homes.

Knowing BP they'll find a way to muck it up due to lack of maintenance.

Raised solar panels cold make a big difference in more arid areas by creating a cooling canopy for agriculture by increasing condensation and reducing evaporation all while producing electricity locally. More research needed.

What they don't mention is the difference in spending from BP on solar vs new oil wells. The last sentence should be listened with the maximum amount of scrutiny and pessimism because all they really said was we need to make sure we accomplish the minimum requirements of sustainability to continue to receive funding and also be able to advertise as a green company without breaking the law in obvious ways. And just remember that 1Mw is around the energy needs for a small town so just remember the total amount of small towns in the US and also don't forget you need to over spec a solar array and pair it with energy storage. The math isn't mathing especially when you look at the salaries including bonuses and shares given to the top brass of oil companies as well as lobbying paid to government entities. They are clinging to oil because its easy and they want to not feel like they've wasted their investments from the last ten years but things are going to have to change exponentially quicker just to be able to slow down climate change let alone stop and reverse it. Some companies need to fail and go bankrupt unfortunately they are also propping up the "market" so they will continue to be bailed out. Unless oil companies can transition to 90 % renewables and or sequester more carbon than they are extracting we are simply not going to achieve anything meaningful in the next 10 years all while the stored heat captured by the ocean will continue to heat up the atmosphere regardless of our emissions.

It's an great idea for big oil companies. Collect subsidies for going solar, gain control of lot's of farmland, while pretending to be an environmentally friendly green company while still getting most of their profits by drilling in the ground for fossil fuels.

Why aren't we building solar on every commercial rooftop / parking lot. The amount of space available is more than enough to satisfy the thousands of square miles needed to power the whole country. There are so many benefits: dual use of land without taking away farm land, local use with less transmission loss, pre-made infrastructure to build on top, ease of connection to the grid, local maintenance and repair, as well as shading for humans and cars. Please reply with benefits that I have not mentioned. There are so many benefits for the cost of some extra investments. Why isn't the government doing more to promote this?

Numerous studies show agrisolar can boost productivity for the land. Shade at the height of the day can burn plants and panels can limit that.

The fact that a grazing field gets you nothing in the winter while solar still can produce is something no one is talking about

Brilliant! This is what I've been thinking. Coexistence.

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Perhaps building solar farms on golf courses would be better instead.

Because the companies BP and Shell both know that they are going to lose against renewable energy.

As someone who does life cycle analysis for research projects... Multiple use land is an interesting proposal. You could use less land for a single purpose if it wasn't shared, but there the efficiency of dual use is huge. Without that these large solar plants on what could be farmland or forest has a large negative impact on local environments. I'm still for nuclear over renewables because we aren't holding people accountable for proper recycling and disposal of turbine blades and solar panels. They just end up stacked in fields or landfills.

Great idea for the perfect combination

Have you seen the massive machines used to harvest crops? There is no way that you can put realistic panels out in crop fields. Solar/BP already ran the numbers and that is why they went with sheep & bees.

Shell : What do you mean by Oil and Gas? Our company is always about Energy in all forms. How about you BP? BP : We are... British Panels

This is a win, win, win for everybody! Not to mention those hard-working sheep can get some shade!

This is interesting mixing farming and renewable energy. We always need farmers and farm land.

CNBC always delivers knowledgeable and informative docu on any issue. Great work. Modern farming practices helpful to farmers and environment is always much appreciated.

Your videos are always amazing

can someone explain how a 6.5 oz jar holds 8 oz of honey ?

Productivity of land is determined by its annual renting income ability,if solar pannel can provide better rental yield than crops on the land then it is definitely more productive to lease it o solar companies. As energy prices will increase more with decrease in fossil fuel usage due to pollution, solar pannel will become more economically viable for us.

i wonder about the feasibility of using grain crops like wheat since it doesn't grow as tall as plants like tomatoes, though economically it's probably bad since it's usually farmed in large scale with large equipments

This is really good!

They get so tender and crispy among those panels 😂

Great content! Thank you

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One thing they forget is farmland, especially in the Midwest is concentrated in extreme weather areas. Tornadoes, high winds, hale, lightning.

It probably doesn't make sense to install solar over crop fields since that would take energy away from the crops, but it does make sense for cattle and other farm animals. I've always wondered if you could add a ventilation system to filter out the methane cows produce to reduce greenhouse gasses and maybe even take the stink out of the air when you drive past a farm.

Sounds like a great idea! ⭐️

Shorter height crops like alfalfa and soybean could likely be grown between arrays ..with the right spacing and harvesting equipment.

I hope this new trend lower the cost of lamp chop, my favorite!

Smart move, Generating power & the sheep look happy, Why not raise the panels a little higher and have Cows as well, or even crops like wheat & barley, the panels can be folded to line up vertically when the machines are working on crop seeding & harvesting, and post harvesting the cattle will be oriented towards the harvested sections and steered away from the growing crops while generating power continuously

Here is the 100000000% reason why farm land is hard to come by for more agrovotaics, it's because about 40% of all farm land in the US is used only for ethanol production that makes up less than 10% of the US fuel needs. Also solar farm producers don't want the extra hassle

If you’re initial thoughts were that this is a good idea or will benefit you in a meaningful way I’d advise you to think again or rather think beyond what these for profit institutions put out.

Finally! I was wondering why there are no sheep around solar panels

Farming crops, animals, and energy. Nice!

Why don't you have youtube timestamps? It is easier to navigate and listen to a specific part again.

I see a potential to have two inefficient "projects" at one location rather than this being any kind of rational, targeted solution. It seems obvious- but, if the farmers are too reliant on funding from non-ag sources, one could argue they are no longer farmers.

What about raspberries? They need a good amount of shade.

Looks like I might be getting some BP and Shell stocks.

I would much rather see us cover impermeable surfaces first with solar before we decommission arable land, but there are some very good points made in this video that I cannot really refute otherwise.

really cool idea!

"These are 6.5 ounce jars, but they hold 8 ounces of honey". So are they really 6.5 ounce jars?

Fantastico proyecto! Hay que recordar que no se va extender a todas las tierras agrícolas ya que USA solo necesita 25 mil km2 para tener toda la energía. Eso es menos del 10% de solo UN estado como Nevada (280 mil km2) (también Musk concluye lo mismo). Es una gran forma de enriquecer las tierras y volverlas más productivas! combinando pasto regenerativo y paneles. Solo falta energía eólica para cerrar el circulo.

Where I live, solar companies have purchased or leased properties and cut down thousands of acres of trees.

At many places, the land gets too much sun, crops can not grow well because of that. With solar panels on this type of land, one can grow much more. Possible also: use some of the electricity to get water out of the air, give it to the crops.

BP service stations in Australia are probably the worst due to lack of maintenance and staff training...I usually go to Shell or Woolworths Caltex

SHELL has started to convert some of its stations to EV charging stations. So far over 8,000 gas stations worldwide have been converted. Welcome to the Future. !

In drought areas with solar panels, solid state water condensing panels can be added to the solar panels turning dry ground into productive Earth as water drips from the panels even on the hottest days, quietly and efficiency like the solid state coolers on CPU units within computers. Every school district should be producing more power than they consume adding to their budgets for the students, municipal buildings covering the facades with solar panels. If every home had just one solar panel where there was none, parasitic power loss would be eliminated and the grid wouldn't be overwhelmed by the power traveling in all directions in small quantities, preferably with the private ownership and benefit, the cost of the power meter probably more expensive than the panel.

This could be good for beef and buffalo ranches. You get some shade for the livestock and grazing.

I was on a solar project in Virginia where they cut all the trees down and put in solar

this idea and business model was originally developed in the northwest of China.

get those panels vertical, North to West oriented, and double sided

What about the recycling of the solar panel? When the return ratio is lower after 20years ? What happen to the chemical sandwich in these panels ? How much is it recycled ?

buying energy from BP > eating to continue living

Good idea...❤

Seems like a win win for everyone. Farmers get more money for the same land. sheep get shade to relax customers will pay less for electricity Earth will become less polluted And solar company’s get to make their profits and get professional sheep landscapers.

Let's do the same over our water sources, every canal, river, reservoir should have solar panels over them.

Amazing technology

I have a feeling like this is a sleazy way to convert land from agriculture to commercial while still maintaining the tax benefits of agricultural land.

We don't need to use a bunch of farmland for solar. Put solar panels on all roofs and over every parking lot and we will have more than enough. Along with wind, hydro, and geothermal to balance the mix, we could go 100% green energy this decade.

Solar canopies over parking lots. US has huge parking lots everywhere. I don't know why they won't utilize vast swaths of land that's used solely for parking a vehicle.

Animals can rest under solar panels in a hot sunny day like under a tree shadow. Nice!

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The sound of background music is too loud .

Just curious as to what the bees are pollinating on 😅

What I want to see is for oil companies to get into new forms of geothermal using drilling and fracking technology. That is the future for baseline power generation in the US. Nuclear is excellent and ideal, but it's just not realistic these days. Projects take billions of dollars and many years to build. Then you have waste, possible targets for terrorism, etc. Geothermal is safer and also green. Let's use the people, tech, and resources from big oil.

This is great

I am wondering how they will deal with the solar panel toxicity once the panels are no longer useful. These panels contain toxic heavy metals.

They are finding innovative ways to get all that free government, subsidy money and also turn a profit.

What's neater than carbon neutral (at best) energy? Carbon negative energy.. on the same land. Instead of mining, transporting, manufacturing, then installing complex technologies onto natural habitat plowed over to allow for these complex facilities & accompanying supporting infrastructure required.. ..why not skip the whole mining, transporting, manufacturing, etc process of plowed land altered from natural habitat evolved over eons to match the environment and, instead, return it to a very similar environment that it once was: managed grassland. The key: managed grasslane. Switchgrass also absorbs solar & wind energy, it also converts it to stored energy easily converted utilizing centuries-proven technologies (modernized) to forms drop-in compatible with our already existing infrastructure.. and that pairs incredibly nicely with the already existing industries in Texas: oil & refining. Switchgrass that's actively managed, grazed, planted with native species, pollinators, then harvested, anaerobically digested (for ethanol production), then pyrolyzed -to extract a hydrogen-rich syngas- in such a way as to emphasize biochar production.. ..biochar that's then mixed back into the soil from which the switchgrass I'd harvested.. provides a drop in ready blendable-capable long-term storage fuel (ethanol) that can be later processed for hydrogen extraction (ala ICEs & Proton Exchange Membranes) or just used for grid power & distribution for BEV charging. The hydrogen rich syngas can be blended with natural gas for grid power, or farther refined to pure hydrogen for use in ICEs & PEMs. Switchgrass is not only drought tolerant, an excellent feedstock for grazing livestock, and incredibly carbon-rich (all from atmospheric carbon it's removing during its growth cycle), but it's also a native grass to the region.. thus well adept at providing habitat to natural wildlife that've been so affected by attempts at 'modernity' that recent decades via oil&gas industries as well projects like these. Sure it might not bring the infrastructural jobs advertised & required for these projects, but it still brings jobs, and it does so while simultaneously freeing up the materials ..project-types like these need.. for use in complimenting industries like copper & lithium for BEV manufacturing, silicon for building materials & chip fabrication, as the intermittency of stored energy from switchgrass won't need grid scale electrical storage facilities for when the sun isn't shining & wind isn't blowing. Where solar makes sense is in urban areas closer to points of use; the buildings & houses utilizing the electricity being generated. The biochar will do far more to rebuild the soil and recover the habitats & health of the environment than these 'glass farms' ever will.. and will do so by not only reducing but actually *removing* the atmospheric carbon that solar nor wind ever could. Upon desired levels of soil carbon returned & attained by the biochar, the subsequent harvests of switchgrass derived biochar can then be used as a feedstock for flash-graphene production, which is already proven technology and capable of orders of magnitude higher percentages of solar energy harnessing than the dated product cycling tech these panel-types use. 'Sounds great' in a blurb, but if presented with a clearer alternative such as the above, I think the participants in the video shown would most definitely agree. Unfortunately, funding keeps going to projects like this vs projects that would have a far larger & longer lasting impact. At least we get to 'feel good' about not actually doing anything truly effective though.

Properly elevated and sized panels can also provide shade to sun sensitive crops extending the viable climate zones those crops can be grown in, which in turn can give farmers more crop options at planting time to pick the crop that is projected to be most in demand.

I don't know why this was not started a decade or two ago as it seemed to be blatantly obvious to me. I don't see it working with crop farming at the structures would interfere with farming machines. But it should work with ranching of sheep and maybe cattle. The problem with cattle is they are big and can damage the structures expectantly if they stampede.

Those are beautiful animals I would use a fpv drone to do the Sheep herding around it works well with my goats I have the same dogs but they're not that well-trained it's very difficult to get the dog to move them it was easier to learn to fly a racing fpv drone once you've learned to fly it's a total game changer now I am so good I chase Hawks out of trees for protection for my chickens you have to be very good when you're flying close to expensive solar panels it's all about visualizing your surroundings if you manage to fly through a tree and not get hung up your pro don't let your skills go to waste I film for a true removal company so they can get their money from the insurance I make a little money now

This is a little frightening - especially the part about descendants looking to monetize while in a bind. I truly hope these efforts are undertaken with consideration of local ecology. I truly hope this is a good move.

Not sure if its right...As the best land for farming is being used for Industrial purposes....I think they should pick the land that is not fit for farming 😞😞😞😞

So, a little known fact is that many honey bees used are not native to the United States. And hives can end up crowding out Native bees that often don’t live in hives.

How about we design bigger solar panels higher off the ground so it can be farmed and have solar

Because farmers are constantly making land “spent” if they just buy spent land eventually it will all be gone anyway. There are enough examples of how to put nutrients back into the law

surprised you all didn't talk to byron kominek from Jack's Solar Garden

Very interesting. Solar farms take up a lot of land. This could be a solution that agriculture continues with solar power being generated.

Yes!

This is supercool, it feels like the future is already here. Wow.

It's good to see USA's allies investing in our country. Do not let Chinese companies or individuals buying USA farmland.

If only Shell and BP put money on actual solar power rather than just farmlands! Why they cant consider solar power as an investment worthy project even when common people are investing in it?

This is how solar should be done! so that land is not wasted.

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Nothing like greenwashing the issue. The one guy was completely correct. You're taking a chunk out of our limited cropland and converting it to industrial use. There are scrublands not used for crops such as cotton that could be used for this purpose instead. But no, they'll buy land developed for making food or materials needed by people, out of production. I like solar, but BP and Shell can certainly afford to level scrubland for this purpose, instead. Cropland is expensive as it is for farmers. Don't make it even more scarce. This appeals to people who have no idea where their food actually comes from.