ASGA Call #68: Making Agrivoltaics a Financial Success with NREL (Research + Agrivoltaics Tools Update)
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Hello Reader,
We've invited NREL's Jordan Macknick and James McCall to give us a long overdue update on NREL's agrivoltaics research projects, which are run through their InSPIRE project.
NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), has quite a few projects cooked up right now.
So we asked them to tell us about some particularly exciting tools that we think ASGA folks would be interested in. Those include: their new agrivoltaics map, the agrivoltaics financial calculator, and their comparative research into O&M costs for different types of ground covers.
Have questions about other NREL projects? Come to the webinar and ask them - James and Jordan will be happy to speak about their programs.
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ASGA Call#68: Making Agrivoltaics a Financial Success: Tools & Research Update from NREL
Wednesday, July 5th ~ 6 - 7 PM EST
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π More About ASGA Call 68's Speakers
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James McCall is a senior analyst at NREL who specializes in modeling the economic and environmental tradeoffs of agrivoltaics and renewable energy projects. His areas of interest include dual-land use solar configurations, energy-water-food nexus, land use change impacts, and renewable energy siting and economic modeling.
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Jordan Macknick is the Lead Energy-Water-Land Analyst for NREL. He is a member of the Strategic Energy Analysis Center's Systems Modeling team within the Resources and Sustainability Group. His primary work addresses the environmental impacts of energy technologies, while seeking opportunities for energy and ecological synergies.
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In his energy-water-land leadership capacity, Macknick analyzes national and regional implications of different energy pathways in the context of water and land resources, evaluates opportunities to improve the energy management of water infrastructure, and explores innovative approaches to co-locating solar and agricultural activities.
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