The solar panels sit over Turlock Irrigation District canals in Central ... aquatic weed growth and can improve water quality, reduce canal maintenance. It also saves land; we can avoid taking ...

California’s Project Nexus has begun generating electricity from solar panels installed over irrigation canals, with ...

and co-benefits using canal infrastructure and the electrical grid. India already has solar panels over canals, but Project Nexus is the first of its kind in the US. The Turlock Irrigation ...

California is using federal dollars for infrastructure improvement to pilot placing solar canopies over parts of its aqueducts to improve green energy production ... also investing $20 million in two ...

The $20 million project grew out of a 2021 study at University of California campuses in Merced and Santa Cruz.