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The Environment+Energy Leader 100 is an annual list that recognizes environment and energy management “doers.” Here, Peter Perrault talks about the industry’s challenges, his own inspiration, successful projects — and why the hip hop culture ties in naturally with clean energy.
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. It's 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, bare ground or gravel, the land beneath Enel's Minnesota installations were all seeded with native ...