The sheep belong to Chad Raines, owner of Key Farms in Lamesa, Tex., and they are part of a new initiative called solar grazing. In addition to providing a low-cost, eco-friendly mowing service to energy companies, Raines manages a solar site that provides an estimated 586 gigawatt-hours annually to the booming Texas solar industry.
“We still farm and do everything we used to,” said Raines, “except underneath solar panels.”
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My late father-in-law, an electrical engineer, helped build systems like this in the late 1970s/early 1980s – nearly 50 years ago. There, they set up solar power systems among sugar cane fields in Hawaii – with the goal of using solar power to process the cane as well.
