Turlock Water & Power in California will test putting solar panels across some of its irrigation canals this year.
California has 4,000 miles of irrigation canals that distribute water to farmers in the Golden State. If all of them were covered with, they could produce 13 gigawatts of renewable energy — roughly half of what California needs to meet its clean energy goals.
The pilot project is based on a similar project in the west Indian state of Gujarat and is the first of its kind in the United States, Brandi McKuin, a project scientist at the University of California Merced, tells
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