Solar panels to mitigate climate change

A very clever French vineyard has installed solar panels overhead in their vineyard to shield the vines from heat in the summer and insulate them from extreme cold in the winter. The panels rotate to allow more exposure on darker days. The panels don't just shield the grapes. They shield the ground beneath them reducing temperature around the vines. Of course, the solar panels also produce energy output on sunny days while the crops grow beneath them. 

Apparently, this is being experimented with in other agricultural applications as well. Sun’Agri, the company developing the technology, processes weather data and determines when to shade the crops and when to rotate the panels to give the crops more sunlight. The panels deliver power to the grid which powers about 650 homes in the vicinity.