California Dreaming Is Becoming a Reality: Solar Canals May Mean Having More Water As Well As More Solar Energy

On March 25, 2025, the University of Southern California’s (USC’s) Public Exchange and independent advisor Solar Aquagrid announced the California Solar Canal Initiative, a seven-university project to assess the technological, social, and legal capacities to install solar panels over the many water canals and aqueducts flowing through California. The project builds from a 2021 study conducted at UC Merced, one of the project’s partner universities, that estimated that covering all 4,000 miles of...
By: (ACOEL) | American College of Environmental

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