Alaska’s bright idea for food and energy

Gannon, who is leading the research at a solar farm in Houston, Alaska says the reason for her work is ‘to study how food and energy can be produced together in a place where both cost a lot of money’. — Ash Adams/The New York Times

IN Alaska, land is easy to come by. Energy and food are not.

So when the state’s largest solar farm – capable of powering 1,400 homes – was built two years ago, researchers decided to test whether crops could grow between the rows of panels.