Heat stress doesn’t just strain cattle — it hits bottom lines hard. In the U.S., heat stress among livestock has been estimated to cost $1.7 billion to $2.36 billion annually, even after accounting for existing mitigation efforts. The beef sector alone loses approximately $370 million each year.

Texas, California, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and North Carolina account for $728 million per year, roughly 43% of national livestock heat losses.

Our DERSonne Agri-PV system addresses this head-on. By elevating solar panels above feedlots and pens, we provide structured, reliable shade — reducing heat stress across herds. The benefits are clear:

• 💲Improved Productivity – Shade helps boost weight gain, feed intake, and maintain dry feed revenues.

• 🧡Animal Welfare Resilience – Reduced stress results in calmer livestock, lower mortality risk, and smoother daily management.

• 💀 Animal Mortality – mitigating heat related die-offs

It’s not just solar energy; it’s solar energy that delivers direct financial and welfare advantages to cattle operations in the heat-burdened heartland.

Helical Pile Foundation: Precision from the Ground Up

At the core of our installation innovation is the use of high-torque helical piles — a modern foundation solution engineered for speed, strength, and soil versatility. Unlike concrete footings or driven posts, our piles are screwed into the earth using standard utility digger derricks, forming a deep, anchored base that resists lateral movement, uplift, and settling — even in challenging soil types like sandy loam.

This approach offers a host of advantages. Installation is rapid — each pile takes minutes, not hours, to set — and doesn’t require excavation, curing time, or heavy foundation equipment. This not only reduces environmental impact and site disturbance, but also preserves the integrity of agricultural land. Once installed, the helical pile delivers exceptional vertical and rotational stability, ensuring the DERSonne system stays upright and aligned through high winds, shifting seasons, and livestock activity.

Whether your site is remote, uneven, or agronomically sensitive, our patented helical pile system provides the foundation you can trust — fast to install, built to last, and always ready to perform.

Installation, Reinvented

While most Agri-PV systems rely on concrete, heavy machinery, and multi-day labor, the DERSonne system does things differently — and better. Our patented installation method is streamlined, durable, and purpose-built for agricultural land.

We anchor each system with high-torque helical piles, installed in hours using standard utility digger derricks — no concrete, no ground disruption, and no over-sized equipment. Our modular arrays are pre-wired and precision-lifted into place with minimal crew and zero guesswork. What takes our competitors days, we finish before lunch.

Field-Proven Performance

Whether you’re driving piles into sandy loam or compacted clay, our engineered process ensures vertical alignment and lasting stability — withstanding wind, livestock interaction, and season after season of operation.

What It Is:

• Faster Deployment – From bare ground to operational in the same day

• Lower Labor & Equipment Costs – Minimal crew, standard equipment

• Land-Friendly – No concrete. No excavation. No restoration needed

• Repeatable & Scalable – Designed for growth, not headaches

DERSonne is more than a system — it’s an evolution in how Agri-PV gets done.

By using conventional utility solar components repurposed for agrivoltaics, competitors are at a significant disadvantage. The red indicated in the graphic shows the increased shade amount compared our DERSonne system, on the left.

For croplands, repurposed, off-the-shelf components are an inadequate solution.