Prosperity through philanthropy

Subject : Environment

Context: Billionaires can help increase farmers’ income by funding solar trees on their farms.

Solar tree:

A structure that incorporates solar energy technology on a single pillar, like a trunk of a tree is known as a Solar Tree. It may be a functional power generator or a solar artwork.

Purpose of Solar Tree:

The purpose of Solar trees is to enhance the architecture and landscape they complement, usually in a public or commercial place, and to bring visibility to solar technology.
The objective of installing many solar trees is to promote understanding, awareness, and renewable energy adoption. They are not commonly used as a primary source of energy for a property as rooftop solar systems provide that energy.
Solar trees complement rooftop solar systems or other green building initiatives, symbolizing larger investments and their environmental benefits.
Solar trees can promote solar technology enthusiasm and awareness while also providing shade and meeting spots.

Significance and potential of solar trees:

These Solar Trees can be aligned with Agriculture for substituting price-volatile fossil fuels.
- Installing one’s own solar tree can help save up to 15% on electricity.
Each Solar Tree has the potential to save 10-12 tons of CO2 emissions being released into the atmosphere as Greenhouse Gases when compared with fossil fuel-fired energy generation.
Besides, the surplus generated power can be fed into an Energy Grid.
This Agricultural Model can provide a consistent economic return and help the farmers counter the effects of the uncertain variations in Agriculture related activities, thus, making farming an Economic and Energy Sustainable practice.
The solar tree also has the capability to incorporate IOT based features,i.e. round-the-clock CCTV surveillance in agricultural fields, real-time humidity, wind speed, rainfall prediction and soil analytics sensors.