Japan’s new mushroom solar farms produce sustainable energy and food

Japan’s new mushroom solar farms produce sustainable energy and food

“Japan’s agricultural sector could find a much-needed boost with an innovative approach to growing that combines solar power generation and mushroom cultivation. Sustainergy, a Tokyo-based renewable-energy startup, in collaboration with Hitachi Capitaland Daiwa House Industry, is determined to generate a total 4,000 kilowatts of solar power on two underutilized farm sites in Japan. Not only would the 2,000 kw output at each site stand as the largest of any similar facility in the country, the solar sites will serve another agricultural purpose: the cultivation of cloud-ear mushrooms, which require little sunlight, underneath the solar panels…”

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