{"id":195355,"date":"2024-08-28T16:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T21:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/solar-giant-inaugurates-landmark-agrivoltaic-project-combining-modules-with-a-yam-crop-in-japan"},"modified":"2024-08-28T16:24:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T21:24:58","slug":"solar-giant-inaugurates-landmark-agrivoltaic-project-combining-modules-with-a-yam-crop-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/solar-giant-inaugurates-landmark-agrivoltaic-project-combining-modules-with-a-yam-crop-in-japan","title":{"rendered":"Solar giant inaugurates landmark agrivoltaic project combining modules with a yam crop in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-giant-inaugurates-landmark-agrivoltaic-project-combining-modules-with-a-yam-crop-in-japan2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese solar PV giant Trina Solar has successfully begun commercial operations at a new agri-voltaic solar project in Japan that combines solar modules with a yam crop that thrives in the shade.<\/p>\n<p>The agrivoltaic project is only small \u2013 just 2.4 MW \u2013 and is located in the city of Fukuchiyama in Japan\u2019s northern Kyoto Prefecture, but is a demonstration of the new way of thinking about the use of solar projects and existing farmland.<\/p>\n<p>The Fukuchiyama project is paired with the cultivation of the Japanese yam, also known as ebi-imo, a crop native to the region which thrives in shade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese solar PV giant Trina Solar has successfully begun commercial operations at a new agri-voltaic solar project in Japan that combines solar modules with a yam crop that thrives in the shade. The agrivoltaic project is only small \u2013 just 2.4 MW \u2013 and is located in the city of Fukuchiyama in Japan\u2019s northern Kyoto [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}