Skyview Ventures, HiveTracks expand partnership to multi-state solar portfolio
Renewable energy investor Skyview Ventures and its solar firm Davis Hill Development has expanded its partnership with HiveTracks to integrate apiaries and environmental monitoring across its solar portfolio.
The company’s current solar offerings span multiple states, including Maryland, Connecticut, and New York, plus Washington, D.C. Using HiveTracks’ biodiversity intelligence platform will allow the company to scale data-driven environmental monitoring and managed pollinator programs across several solar projects, incorporating pollinator habitats into existing solar projects.
“This partnership reflects our broader vision that renewable energy projects should be developed with long-term environmental stewardship in mind,” says Andy Karetsky, CEO of Skyview Ventures. “By integrating biodiversity monitoring, pollinator habitats, and data-driven land management into our solar portfolio, we are demonstrating that solar projects can deliver environmental benefits beyond clean energy generation and play a meaningful role in supporting local ecosystems.”
Skyview and HiveTracks have been working together since 2025, the companies say, beginning their collaboration with eight solar projects across New York, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Connecticut. Thanks to the partnership’s initial success, the two firms have planned expansion to additional Davis Hill sites throughout 2026.
Local beekeepers will tend to each solar site throughout the lifespan of its given apiary, the company says. Beyond the production of bottles of honey — which in 2025 was given away to food banks — the apiaries will serve as environmental indicators, giving the companies numbers on ecosystem health and land use impact over time.
Apiary analysis
As part of the agreement, HiveTrack will collect environmental metrics for the solar sites, both on a per-site and portfolio-wide level, company officials say. The metrics will give insight to pollinator and plant diversity and abundance, as well as testing for eDNA and ecotoxicology in each hive.
“Solar energy already provides environmental benefits, but with HiveTracks, we saw an opportunity to go further,” says Maria Morales Ferrebus, solar development associate at Skyview Ventures. “In our first year, the data provided valuable insights into ecosystem health across our sites. For example, we identified areas with low plant diversity, which can reduce resilience to drought conditions and increase erosion risk.
“By implementing HiveTracks’ recommendations, we can adapt our operations and maintenance practices to enhance plant diversity, improve soil health, and strengthen pollinator habitats.”
The apiary program currently spans multiple projects throughout varying stages of development, the company says, with some affected projects already fully operational. This approach allows Skyview to monitor environmental impacts of solar projects through each stage of development, representatives say, with HiveTracks providing site-specific recommendations.
The heart of the program reflects a wider trend around the solar industry, Skyview says, where developers now have an outsized focus on multi-use land strategies. As part of the shift, solar projects have become synonymous with farming, habitat restoration, and biodiversity initiatives around the U.S. and beyond.
“Solar sites represent a unique opportunity to support pollinators and monitor biodiversity at scale,” says Max Rünzel, CEO of HiveTracks. “Our partnership with Skyview Ventures demonstrates how beekeeping, environmental data, and renewable energy infrastructure can work together to create measurable environmental impact.”
