Across more than a dozen states, solar companies have stopped mowing the grass beneath their panels and instead lease flocks of sheep by the head to graze the rows clean, and one Vermont operation now rotates more than a thousand sheep through its arrays each season instead of running gas mowers.
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A solar farm is, underneath all the technology, just a field that refuses to stop being a field. Grass keeps growing between twenty thousand panels the same way laundry keeps piling up in a house with two small kids in it, not because anyone is careless, but because the job simply doesn’t have an off switch.
For years the industry’s answer was gas mowers and weed trimmers, crews driving between rows of hardware every few weeks to keep the grass from shading the lower edge of a panel.
For years the industry’s answer was gas mowers and weed trimmers, crews driving between rows of hardware every few weeks to keep the grass from shading the lower edge of a panel.
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