How to Use solar farm in a Sentence
solar farm
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Rooftop solar can help limit the need for large solar farms, at least a bit.
— Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024 -
Mega solar farms feed into the global renewable energy expansion plans and are therefore important.
— Simi Thambi, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024 -
Solar Star, one of the largest solar farms in the U.S., has a peak output of 586 megawatts.
— Carter Evans, CBS News, 27 July 2023 -
This would be far more toxic to the desert than solar farms.
— Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023 -
Part of the reason is a lack of acreage available for wind and solar farms.
— Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024 -
Still, the kingdom is planning to build solar farms at a rapid pace.
— Stanley Reed, New York Times, 29 May 2024 -
There’s a solar farm on the roof designed to store up to six hours worth of off-the-grid energy.
— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024 -
In Kentucky, a solar farm is going up at the site of a former coal mine.
— Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024 -
But the cost of a new offshore wind farm or new solar farm would rise by roughly one-third.
— Brad Plumer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023 -
The solar farm will help the utility move closer to 17%.
— Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023 -
This cluster of solar farms will cover more than 13 square miles of desert west of Phoenix.
— Ed Ballard, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023 -
Bluff did formally oppose a large solar farm on TLA land a few years ago, but the project is still in the works.
— Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023 -
The caller was from a developer looking to lease land in the area for a solar farm.
— Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024 -
Some of the country’s largest wind and solar farms are in the Texas flatlands outside the city, and a huge wind farm has been proposed off the coast of Galveston.
— New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023 -
Many of the best locations for wind and solar farms are, by their very nature, remote.
— Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024 -
And he’s been told that solar farms would be overrun by rats that would torment neighbors.
— Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023 -
Crowds of opponents flocked to public meetings to demand the plans for a solar farm be shut down.
— USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024 -
But Wang noted that the research group is not advocating for the end of solar farms.
— Kara Fox, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024 -
The company added a third solar farm this year as part of enhancements.
— Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2024 -
Outside Houston, in Fort Bend County, there are now six large solar farms, up from one in 2020.
— J. David Goodman, New York Times, 23 June 2023 -
There’s no question that electric lines kill birds — as do wind turbines and solar farms.
— Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023 -
When that happens, the state’s solar farms make more energy than the state can use, and some panels are simply turned off.
— Andrew Moseman, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2023 -
The community will host tens of thousands of new homes, says the proposal, as well as parks, bike lanes, open space, and a solar farm.
— Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2024 -
Some of that new capacity will come from big solar farms and giant banks of batteries out in the desert, but not all.
— Bernadette Del Chiaro, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024 -
Sammy Roth: Why razing Joshua trees for solar farms isn’t always crazy.
— Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024 -
The city also launched an initiative to convert 250 acres of land into solar farms.
— Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2024 -
The city intends to someday convert the area into a 5-megawatt solar farm, according to its current plan.
— Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2023 -
The solar farm, which has a project life expectancy of 40 years, will be interconnected with and sold to ComEd, Sienkowski said.
— Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023 -
The project is one of six applications to build solar farms on farmland in Hampstead, Sykesville and Westminster.
— Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2024 -
Those groups make the case that large solar farms produce electricity at a far lower cost than rooftop panels.
— Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
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