Madhu Khanna
Professor of environmental economics and director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment at the University of Illinois, researching agrivoltaics and land-use optimization.
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Feb 3, 2026 • 23min
The Growing Experiment Of Putting Solar Panels On Farmland
Dr. Madhu Khanna, an environmental economics professor studying agrivoltaics and land-use tradeoffs. Jana Rose Schleiss, a Midwest reporter who documents farming and solar experiments. They discuss growing crops beneath solar panels, small-farm wins like shaded produce and sheep grazing, technical hurdles for commodity crops, design tradeoffs for climate resilience, and community and economic tensions around farmland conversion.
