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LUBA upholds county’s denial of solar farm permit extension

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Rds

They should not be allowed on high value farmland at all. we are losing too much farmland already every year.

Jean

put them over parking lots. I'd rather load groceries in the shade anyway.

Patrick97132

Jean, they did, or are doing that at an Intel campus in Hillsboro and it's wonderful. I hope we see more of these covering parking lots. Can you imaging loading groceries in the rain without getting wet! And when it's sunny, producing energy. win-win.

scooter

There is research that shows that farming and high value farm land can be a match. Here is the link to an article put out by the USDA.

https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/hubs/northeast/topic/agrivoltaics-coming-soon-farm-near-youv

This has been a growing(no pun intended) for a while now and should be considered for any Solar Farm application. Many plants grow large foliage to protect their fruit and vegetables from the sun. This would allow the plants to put more energy into food production than food protection.

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