Residents are worried about property values and environmental impacts. A decision on the development could be made as early ...

Another Victorian solar farm has caught fire. ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career ...

In virtually every solar hearing, in Buckingham, Prince Edward and in neighboring counties, there’s one question asked.

he and his family began contracting with solar farms—sites with hundreds of thousands of solar modules—to use his sheep to eat the grass. What was once a small business has turned into a full ...

But more of a concern is the potential fire hazard presented by hectares of dry grass. Solar farm owners have traditionally coped with this by mowing the area regularly, but it’s not easy to ...

Once the grass is short enough, Gray uses herding dogs to move the sheep to another section. Maintaining the grounds for the solar farm is no sheepish act, as it has allowed him to grow his herd ...