A New Vision for solar in America
Who we are
In September 2022, American Farmland Trust and Edelen Renewables launched a partnership to create a new type of solar company, focusing on serving the needs of farmers, ranchers, and landowners.
In September 2025, Reactivate joined the team. Reactivate was chosen as FPC’s exclusive developer for its proven track record as a lifecycle partner, delivering community-focused clean energy solutions, backed by a seasoned team with extensive experience in project execution.
This partnership, now known as Farmers Powering Communities, aims to protect America’s most productive farmland and ranchland while expanding equitable access to renewable energy in target communities throughout the nation.
Our Mission
By bringing together those working to feed the planet with those working to power America, Farmers Powering Communities helps ensure that solar development is deployed to maximize benefits to farmers, ranchers, and rural communities.
Farmers Powering Communities focuses exclusively on advancing community-scale solar projects of 25 to 50 acres, providing green energy that can reach two-thirds of Americans, including many low- and moderate-income families who lack access to rooftop solar.
The goal is to create 500MW of community solar capacity in five years.
A tractor in between solar panels at Jack’s Solar Garden in Longmont, Colorado. (Photo by Werner Slocum / NREL)
Smart Solar
What makes Farmers Powering Communities different from other solar developers?
All FPC projects are guided by American Farmland Trust’s Smart Solar℠ principles. These principles prioritize placing solar on buildings and land that is not well-suited for farming, such as the built environment, as well as on disturbed, contaminated, and marginal lands. The goal? Minimize conversion of our nation’s most productive, versatile, and resilient farmland.
FPC projects built on farmland will emphasize agrivoltaics, which sustain agricultural production underneath solar panels and/or between rows of solar panels throughout the life of the project.
