Pollinator-friendly landscape takes root beneath solar panels in Minnesota
Copy shortlink: Sheep graze through the tall prairie grass, their bleats breaking the quiet as butterflies and insects flit through the native flowers. The pastoral setting is not a restored prairie. Its a solar installation in rural Chisago County — one of the 16 in Minnesota run by Enel Green Power, a global renewable energy company based in Rome that supplies Xcel Energy. In Minnesota, at least, the solar farms are generating more than electricity. Instead of turf, ...
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