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Sunblocked: Resistance to Solar in Farm Country

Rural communities across the U.S. push back against large-scale solar projects, sparking a debate on renewable energy and local impact.
Digging Deep to Understand Rural Opposition to Solar Power

New research from the University of Pittsburgh helps to broaden understanding of what factors drive rural attitudes about solar power. The authors interviewed 32 farmers and 16
Does Solar Have a Dark Side? Solar impacts on rural landscapes

The vast majority of new solar facilities are being built in rural communities, where land is usually more plentiful than money, and the locals regularly struggle to pay the bills.
Wind and Solar are the Worst Generating Technologies, Heavily

Enormous subsidies for solar and wind generation technologies are proving much more expensive than advertised. They also carry hidden costs and burdens on the grid, most recently seen
In rural Alaska, a village turns to solar and biomass energies to cut

In Galena, a sprawling village of 400 people on the banks of the Yukon River, a community built around a former military base is shifting to clean energy in an effort to reduce its
Harvesting the Sun–Twice: Agrivoltaics and Rural Land-Use

Currently, there are several ways solar panels can be installed to complement agricultural activities. Fixed vertical or tilted panels provide partial shading for crops and vegetables, protecting
Agrivoltaics: Weighing solar growth and farmland loss

The emerging conflict between utility-scale solar development and farmland loss has generated growing interest in proving the economic viability of continued agricultural production on
Green energy brings money to rural counties despite federal

Despite deep-red voting records and conservative dispositions, many of these counties have few regrets about allowing towering wind turbines and lines of solar panels to dot bits of their...
Solar Energy Expansion and its Impacts on Rural Communities

Over the last decade, solar energy production has grown 25% on average per year and installation costs have dropped more than 40%, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association
Alaska village uses solar and biomass to cut use of diesel and save

So far, the village''s federal grants for the solar array haven''t been impacted, but local leaders know the risk remains. Whatever the future of public funding, the village is an example of how renewable