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Is this going to be a thing - a flock of sheep you can rent to come graze your solar farm?!
Either way we know agrivoltaics is almost a "best of both worlds" strategy. Hopefully as more large PV farms are built, they're designed with this in mind from the start.

https://electrek.co/2024/08/15/enel-is- ... xas-solar/

Hi Dan, I checked the article and I don't think it mentioned/explained this, but I've watched some US news articles over the years on this very subject, and paying for sheep grazing tends to work out cheaper than paying for land management (mowing, strimming etc). So it really is a best of both worlds.

Bit of an aside, but also helps with some legal issues some states have had with land management by goats! I suspect this will be more a California issue than Texas, but for some wildish areas, small permanent goat herds have been used, and the workers get to live on site (trailers). But ...... some state laws have decided the workers are 24hr 7days a week, so need massive pay rises, and the system partially collapsed.

Of couse goats and PV panels tend not to mix well, but just a thought if PV and sheep help with other side issues too.

I believe in the US they have rentable mobile bee hives too - they literally move them around in the back of an 18 wheeler then release them to help pollenate various fields, and then truck them off to the next area. Mental.