Each featured Wild Energy project advances our understanding of how energy systems impact biodiversity, ecosystems, and the future of our planet.
Explore our featured projects below:
Pond Power
Small ponds and lakes play an important role in global water and nutrient cycles.
We are leading the first field-based, observational investigation of floating solar panel installations (FPVs) across multiple water body types, climatic regimes, and coverage percentages. Our goal is to understand the impact of FPV systems on aquatic life and ecosystems.
Hedges for Solar Edges
Hedgerows have historically lined the perimeter of farms in United Kingdom. Now, in the age of solar energy, this ancient practice could have a place in the green infrastructure of the future.
We carefully reviewed planning documents for hundreds of solar developments to learn about the adoption of hedgerows on these sites. This in-depth review reveals the stakes involved with planting greenery in otherwise industrial spaces.
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. Our Flower Power project is a radical, multi-partner effort to restore California prairie at ground-mounted solar farms across the state.
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.
