Industry Engagement on Environmental Issues

Agrivoltaics is the practice of combining agricultural activities with solar energy production. The most common form of agrivoltaics in the United States is solar sheep grazing, in which farmers pasture sheep on land that hosts solar arrays. By grazing under and around the panels, the sheep help maintain vegetation on the site. This can significantly increase the land’s productivity and enhance the local ecosystem while also helping farmers diversify their income, making it a win-win for the site and for farm communities!

Clearway uses solar grazing at several utility-scale solar sites in Hawaii, Utah and California. In 2025, we joined the American Solar Grazing Association – the nation’s leading farmer-led agrivoltaics organization – strengthening our commitment to regenerative land use and rural partnership. This membership helps support a growing base of solar sheep farmers, while providing Clearway with the best practices and industry standards needed to scale solar grazing effectively.

Together, we’re showing that renewable energy and agricultural heritage can thrive side-by-side, supporting healthy soils and local economies as we advance clean energy projects across the country.

In 2022, Clearway joined several other wind energy operators active in the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area to form the Wind Energy Condor Action Team (WECAT), a 24-member consortium that works to protect California condors.

In 2023, the WECAT members became co-permittees under a multi-party U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Section 10a Incidental Take Permit, which is designed to support the continued conservation of the California condor. Under the permit, WECAT members are providing more than $6 million to The Peregrine Fund for the breeding, rearing, and future release of 35 condors over a 15-year period.

WECAT’s partnership with Peregrine Fund helped support the construction of a new Condor barn at the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho. In January 2025 six pairs of condors were moved into the barn, and the breeding season resulted in 10 eggs, of which nine were fertile and seven hatched – results that are above the projected ten- and thirty-year averages for the program.