Solar panels covering California’s 6,350 km network of public water delivery canals could be an economically feasible means of advancing both renewable energy and water conservation, new research has found. Researchers from UC Santa Cruz published a new study, in collaboration with UC Water and the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced, which estimates that canopies of solar panels, installed over canals, could save … Continue reading Solar-covered California canals could advance both water conservation and renewable energy, report says