Column: California farmers are low on water. Why not help them go solar?

May 14, 2024

It sounds like a climate solution everyone should be able to support: Let’s make it easier and cheaper for farmers with dwindling water supplies to convert their lands from crop production to solar energy generation, if that’s what those farmers want.So what’s stopping such a bill from sailing through the California Legislature?“Change can be difficult,” said Shannon Eddy, executive director of the Large-scale Solar Assn.
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