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Connecticut Solar Developers Enlist Sheep to Cut Grass and Ease Tensions

Sheep roam among solar panels in Belgium. Connecticut solar developers have proposed using sheep to control vegetation at solar sites. Credit: Antalexion / Creative Commons
Energy News Network: Connecticut Solar Developers Enlist Sheep to Cut Grass and Ease Tensions (March 3, 2021)
 

It wasn’t your usual Connecticut Siting Council hearing.

The petition before the regulators last week concerned a proposed 4.99-megawatt solar project on a tobacco farm in East Windsor. But many of the councilors’ questions for developer Greenskies Clean Energy had little to do with the technicalities of solar.

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