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. 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 ...
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