Who We Are

We are forming a community investment fund to build renewable energy farms.

Our partner develops community solar projects in the USA, emphasizing small to mid-size 

initiatives that empower local communities through a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) project funding model to fund Agrisolar farms. This innovative approach allows community members to collectively own and benefit from the solar farms, rather than large corporations or power companies.

 As of August 2023, Illinois has 121 solar farms already operating with a current capacity of 

875 MW and a current electricity generation of 5,44,136 MWh.  In Illinois, the average 

solar farm size is 50 acres, producing 9MW of electricity under ideal conditions. 

So, a solar farm in Illinois needs an average of 5 acres per MW of capacity. 

 The latest push in Illinois is to add solar energy to the grid to increase the state’s footprint of renewable energy. The state’s goal is to require 25% of retail electric sales be from renewable 

sources by 2025. Utility-scale solar is the fastest growing power source in the U.S., more than 

doubling in the last three years. Power companies built more solar farms last year than ever 

before, and they’ll likely hit another record expansion this year. 

 The increase in solar energy means solar farms and traditional farms are vying for some of the same acreage. The competition for land comes at a time when farmland is already losing one to two million acres a year. Now solar farms are a small but growing use for those fields. One answer is agrivoltaics – the idea that production agriculture can coexist with utility-scale solar power. 

According to the Institute for Energy Research, solar energy is depleting farmlands of 

their rich soils in the U.S. Midwest. The solar industry is moving into the U.S. 

Midwest, drawn by cheaper land rents, access to electric transmission, 

massive federal and state incentives, and the region’s wide-open fields. 

  Reuters based findings on an analysis of federal, state and local data, hundreds of pages of 

court records; and interviews with more than 100 energy and soil scientists, agricultural 

economists, farmers and farmland owners, and local, state and federal lawmakers. 

 According to some agricultural economists and agronomists, taking even small amounts 

of the best cropland out of production for solar development and damaging valuable 

topsoil impacts future crop potential in the United States. According to the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department, common solar farm 

construction practices, including clearing and grading large sections of land, can lead 

to significant erosion and major runoff of sediment into waterways without proper remediation. 

 Farmers are leasing land in the Midwest for solar development as the industry moves there due 

to the government’s massive subsidies, and the area’s cheap rents, access to transmission and 

wide-open spaces. While the leases provide for damage control, the land is being depleted of its

 rich topsoil as the solar developers builds their roads and other infrastructure.   

Solar power is just one more industry that is removing important farmland from 

production by offering much higher rents for the land than farmers can afford to pay. 

Who says a solar farm needs to be out in a farmer's field? Why take away vital, rich 

Illinois farmland and cover them with solar panels for the next 35 years or more?

Why couldn't we build Urban Renewable Energy Farms? It's better than a farmer's field.

 Brown space, or brownfield land, consists of land that is in transition in some way, such as wasteland or derelict open land. Grey space includes open spaces that have hard and impermeable surfaces, such as civic squares, buildings, car parking lots, and other areas of public realm. 

One of the reasons Illinois farmlands are being gobbled up for solar farm development, each farmer only has so many acres of land, once a project reaches capacity, they must build a new one.

Building an Urban Energy Farm gives us almost unlimited space for development.

Upgrading commercial and residential buildings with solar and other technologies.

  Solar farming can be profitable, with average returns of 10-15% annually. 

Initial setup costs range from $800 to $1,200 per kW of capacity while operating 

costs are typically low. Revenue depends on local energy prices and solar 

irradiance levels.  While the initial setup cost can be high, government incentives 

and falling equipment prices are making it easier for investors to jump in.  

 Our partners have an innovative program empowers farmers by providing them with access to Agrisolar technology, enabling them to generate additional income from solar energy production while diversifying their crops. By combining agriculture and renewable energy, the program addresses key challenges such as food security, poverty alleviation, and environmental sustainability. 

Research indicates that growing many types of crops beneath solar panels can 

actually, grow better, stronger, and longer under the protective covering of the solar panels. 

Add high value crops to grow under your Agrisolar farm makes all the difference that can 

easily triple your income in the right geographical area. 

Our goal is to bring power, profits, and jobs back to the people who live and work in their local communities.  Don't worry, you don't have to know a thing about building a solar or renewable energy farm. Our experts have those aspects covered; we are simply crowd-investing to finance up-coming projects. Community Investors can collectively own and benefit from new farms WE develop.