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The rapidly growing business of solar grazing
The business of solar grazing, using animals to manage vegetation at solar sites, has taken off in along with the growth of solar in the U.S.
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Solar grazing—using livestock to control vegetation at photovoltaic sites—has become a formal industry since 2018, according to Stacie Peterson, executive director of the American Solar Grazing Association (ASGA). The 2024 United States Solar Grazing Census, a joint effort by ASGA and the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, recorded more than 113,000 sheep operating on 129,000 acres of solar‑panel fields. Peterson noted that the upcoming 2025 census, not yet released, is expected to show a substantial rise in those figures.
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