Ground-mount solar for farms, rural businesses & homes
Harvest more of the sun with the only tilt-adjustable ground mount built by farm-equipment people.
SolarCAM® is a patented, engineered steel ground mount you re-angle four times a year, so your panels produce up to 20% more than a fixed array. Designed, installed and serviced by Ag Technologies in Rochester, Indiana since 2012.
Who we build for
Solar sized for the way you use power
From a 10 kW array behind the house to a two-megawatt field beside the seed plant, the same engineered stand and the same local crew.
Farms & agribusiness
Grain systems, livestock barns, irrigation and shops. Place the array on the farmstead, keep the cropland in production, and pair it with Illinois Shines where it fits.
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Rural business & commercial
Dealerships, manufacturers, funeral homes, churches and schools. A 30% investment credit plus depreciation still applies to business systems placed in service by the end of 2027.
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Homes & acreages
If you have a yard and a sunny spot, a ground mount beats a roof: no penetrations, easy to clean, and each panel tracked in a monitoring app.
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The SolarCAM difference
A stand you can tilt in under a minute. Four times a year, for 30 years.
Fixed arrays are set once at a compromise angle. SolarCAM’s patented cam-lock jack lets one person re-angle a whole row for winter, spring, summer and fall. In our own side-by-side measurement, a 45° winter tilt collected 949 W/m² while a 25° fixed panel collected 787 W/m², a 20% difference.
- Engineered steel frame by Craig Welding, PE-certified for 90 mph winds
- Panels balanced over a central pipe: no heavy lifting, no tools
- Maintenance is a dab of grease about every three years
- Microinverters report every panel to your phone
Incentives in 2026
The rules changed this year. We keep up so you don’t have to.
Here is where things stand as of October 2026. Details and estimates are on each page.
Illinois Shines REC incentive
Illinois pays system owners for 15 years of renewable energy credits through an Approved Vendor. Systems 25 kW and under now receive 50% at energization. A $20/REC adder applies to customer-owned small systems that don’t take a federal credit.
Illinois Shines details →Export credits & the Illinois smart-inverter rebate
Illinois utilities now pay supply-only credits for exported power but offer a rebate of at least $300 per kW; Indiana utilities and co-ops each set their own export rules. We read your tariff before we size the system.
Utility credits by territory →30% investment tax credit + depreciation
The residential credit ended after 2025, but business and farm systems placed in service by Dec 31, 2027 can still claim the 30% credit, and 100% bonus depreciation is back. Timing is everything.
Tax credits & financing →How it works
From electric bill to energized system
Send us a bill
We analyze 12 months of usage and your utility’s export rules, then map the array in satellite imagery with shade and sun-path modeling.
Get a plan, not a pitch
You receive a sized system, a 30-year cash-flow model and an incentive plan: Illinois Shines, tax credit, depreciation and financing options.
We build it
Our in-house crew sets the engineered stands, panels and microinverters, handles permits and interconnection, and energize the system.
We stay on it
Per-panel monitoring, seasonal tilt reminders and a service team 20 minutes from the shop that sells the tractors.
Recent work
Projects your neighbors can point to
Curtis Creek Dairy
2024 AgriSolar Project of the Year, 1st place (APsystems). Dairy operation offsetting barn and milking loads.
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Beck’s Hybrids, Atlanta IN
Two 1 MW arrays on 10 acres, about 25% of the seed company’s electricity. Built with Duke Energy and Omni Electric.
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Mentone Elementary School
Rows of tilt-adjustable panels shedding snow next to the school, lowering a public budget line for decades.
Learn more →When you think about it, farmers are in the business of capturing sunlight and converting it to energy. By installing solar panels, we are taking that concept and applying it to our business of producing seed.
Sonny Beck, CEOBeck’s Hybrids, Atlanta, Indiana[Placeholder: replace with a recent Illinois farm or home customer quote, with permission. Keep the “individual experience may differ” line below.]
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Illinois Shines Approved Vendor #336New Holland dealer family since 1984Start with your electric bill. We’ll do the math.
A free site assessment includes system sizing, a 30-year cash-flow model and an incentive plan for your state. No pressure, no door-knockers.