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title: Connecticut Solar Developers Enlist Sheep to Cut Grass and Ease Tensions | Titan Energy
description: 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.
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# [Connecticut Solar Developers Enlist Sheep to Cut Grass and Ease Tensions | Titan Energy](https://blog.titanenergyne.com/connecticut-solar-developers-enlist-sheep-to-cut-grass-and-ease-tensions)

 Written by [Titan Energy](https://blog.titanenergyne.com/author/titan-energy) | March 3, 2021

 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.

[Click here to read more.](https://energynews.us/2021/03/03/connecticut-solar-developers-enlist-sheep-to-cut-grass-and-ease-tensions/)

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