The scope of our research projects is growing, but each one advances our understanding of how energy develops and impacts planet Earth.
Explore our featured projects below:
EmPowering Birds
On waterbodies across the United States, a blue heron steps on a floating photovoltaic solar energy installation for the first time in Earth’s history. We were there.
Wild Energy Affiliate Scientist Emma Forester records its every move to understand exactly how birds interact with this novel infrastructure and what this means for sustainability.
Flower Power
The Great Central Valley of California, United States, was once a sea of wildflowers, pollinators, and highly productive carbon-sequestering native grasses.
Today, 95% of the original vegetation has been lost to farmland. The Restorative Energy is a radical, multi-partner effort to restore California prairie at ground-mounted solar farms.
Pond Power
Small ponds and lakes are greater in areal extant than larger water bodies and play a disproportionate role in global cycles.
We are leading the first field-based, observational investigation of FPV installations across multiple small, polymictic water body types, climatic regimes, and coverage percentages using a standardized and high-throughput sensor-based approach. Our partners include the Florida Solar Energy Center and the National Renewable Energy Lab.
