We pride ourselves on designing the solar installation to accommodate your farming priorities allowing you to draw additional income from the land.
Companies looking for solar panel farms.
Other times solar farms are being placed on vacant industrial sites or land that hasn t grown crops in years.
We handle everything from assessing your site and providing lease rates to permitting environmental studies and interconnection.
For context that s about the size of 142 football.
Which allows solar panels on 4 000 acres of the company s land and sets aside 2 000.
Solar farms can take many forms.
Top producers in this space include chinese companies like jinkosolar trina solar and ja solar.
7x energy is an established well financed developer of solar farms that provides clean energy to utilities municipals cooperatives and corporations.
Want to discuss a solar farm.
We have a proven track record with over 980 mwp under construction and 450 mwp operational.
It consists of 1 7 million solar panels spread out over 13 square kilometers or 3 200 acres in kern and los angeles counties california.
Solar farms generate energy without any harmful byproducts or carbon emissions.
Solar farms are especially interesting for american farmers since depending on the crop solar farm profits from photovoltaic panels could end up being far greater than traditional farming practices especially in the right climates.
Manufacturers mostly based in east asia make solar panels and other important items like electrical inverters transformers and racking systems.
Due to the self sustaining nature of solar power generation there is very little traffic associated with operating a solar farm.
Landowners can earn long term lease income for each acre of land that is available for solar farm projects often through community solar programs.
Most people are familiar with solar panels mounted on the rooftop of our house to solar farms but the truth is that both the solar panels in our homes and solar farms serves the same purpose but in varying degrees.
Once the vegetation buffer.
The solar farms we develop require large amounts of land where we will ultimately place tens of thousands of solar panels.
Converting farmland to solar farms also could be key to meeting california s climate change targets.
Solar star america s largest solar farm was actually the biggest in the world when it was completed in june of 2015.
America s largest solar farm.
Our solar panels and equipment typically occupy only 30 of the leased land and the design of the solar farm can incorporate grazing of small livestock like sheep.