Director, Agrivoltaics & Land Management
Lightsource bp, New York
Lexie Hain is Director of Agrivoltaics and Land Management at Lightsource bp and passionate advocate and practitioner for dual-use development. A farm owner in New York State since 2005, Lexie started with a small homestead and transitioned from owner to operator of a specialty plant nursery, Lexie also helped develop Agrivoltaic Solutions LLC with Lewis Fox, which manages a portfolio of grazed solar arrays in the Northeast and consults on individual projects.
She also is a founder of and board President-Emeritus of the American Solar Grazing Association (ASGA), farmer led organziation focused on the development of agrivoltaics best practices. It has a membership of 1400 subscribers worldwide, and remains focused on providing technical resources to solar firms and the agircultural community for successful agrivoltaics development and operations.
Since joining Lightsource bp in 2022, Lexie has been building Lightsource bp’s agrivoltaics program in the United States, bringing more than 20,000 of sheep and honey production to utility-scale solar farms. She works across the organization to streamline grazing into processes, designs and implementation to ensure the growing success of solar grazing. She has has integrated sheep grazing into more 3 GW of operating projects across the US for Lightsource bp by forging new partnerships with over 20 different farming families. And she also spearheads research projects and partnerships at Lightsource bp, including the DOE & REWI PHASE2 project at their Bellflower Solar Project in Indiana.
Solar: It's a Land-Based Business
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM CT