Project Nexus, the first solar panel canopies over irrigation canals in the US, is now online in California, and there are plans to expand the project to other areas. Project Nexus is a $20 ...

In 2021, our team at UC Merced found that covering California’s extensive network of irrigation canals with solar panels could make significant contributions to both clean energy and water ...

Around the same time, the Turlock Irrigation District, an entity that also provides power, reached out to UC Merced. It was looking to build a solar project to comply with the state’s increased ...

A construction crew at the Casablanca irrigation canal on the Gila River Indian Reservation. (Peter O'Dowd/Here & Now) For the first time in the United States, a tribe in Arizona is building a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — A group of Oregon property owners who sued an irrigation district over its plan to convert miles of open earth canals into underground piping did not find the relief they were ...