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Current agricultural practices are putting enormous stresses on the environment that includes unsustainable water usage, deforestation, and pesticide runoff. These stresses are expected to get more severe in the coming years due to the need to feed an increasing global population. One promising approach to reduce environmental impact is greenhouse-based agriculture that can significantly increase land use efficiency while reducing water consumption and pesticides. However, a major limitation of greenhouses is the significantly higher energy consumption used to condition the space. Here, we show that semitransparent organic solar cells (OSCs) can enable net zero energy (NZE) greenhouses and thus provide a significant opportunity to advance environmentally sustainable agriculture. Furthermore, we show that the unique attributes of organic solar cells are well suited for synergistic greenhouse integration providing a potential route for broad commercial adoption of OSCs.