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Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together

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Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together

By Kari Lydersen

This story was originally published by Canary Media.

To all the challenges the solar industry is facing today, add one more: cultivating a domestic market for lamb meat. It may seem an unlikely mission for clean-energy developers, but in many states, including Illinois, grazing sheep between rows of photovoltaic panels is considered the most efficient form of agrivoltaics — the combination of solar and farming on the same land.

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