GYEONGSAN, North Gyeongsang Province ― Seasoned green onions served at a cafeteria in Yeungnam University last Wednesday were no different from those made with ingredients from ordinary farms. However, these ones did differ in one major way: They were grown under solar panels installed at the university s agrivoltaics demonstration complex.
HAMYANG, South Gyeongsang Province – A week before Chuseok, the sounds of a combine harvester s revving engine echoed in Gi-dong village of Hamyang, some 240 kilometers southeast of Seoul. The sound is not an unfamiliar one at any farm during harvest season around the country, but the scene was different as the machine cut and threshed grains underneath solar panels. Sleek, rectangular panels are placed on pol.