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The Solar Farm Summit opens the traces of communication
The American Farmland Trust mentioned lately Solar Farm Summit in Chicago permits farmers and builders to have frank conversations about what the longer term integration into agriculture might seem like.
Midwest Solar Specialist Alan Bailey says Brownfield photo voltaic tasks on agricultural lands are nonetheless of their infancy.
“Everyone is attempting to determine it out and sadly the analysis and every thing else will not be coming on the identical price because the progress is coming,” he mentioned. “We hope that builders will take into account that as they study from these conversations.”
Senior Manager for Smart Solar Outreach Greg Plotkin says thorough communication from builders is a advertising technique to get landlords to signal leases, however there is not any rush.
“When you might have the land and you’ve got the transmission capability, you actually have the chance to drive extra conversations,” he mentioned. “And so it is a issue of empowerment that we wish to give to those folks.”
Plotkin mentioned photo voltaic can provide producers a possibility to be extra economically viable and their group gives steerage to these exploring totally different choices.
AUDIO: Greg Plotkin and Alan Bailey, American Farmland Trust
