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NREL Partners With Black Farmers’ Collaborative To Plan Solar Panels for Florida Farms and Churches

13 July 2023

July 13, 2023 | By Sarah Meehan On Cetta Barnhart’s demonstration farm in Monticello, Florida, she grows citrus trees, leafy greens, and other produce that often goes to the community-supported agriculture project she founded, Seed Time Harvest Farms. Soon, there will be a new addition on her property: solar panels. Barnhart’s farm is one site where U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers are helping…