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Connecticut Solar Developers Enlist Sheep to Cut Grass and Ease Tensions | Titan Energy

Written by 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.