Vitality Help Providers (ESS) has partnered with DSD Renewables to launch an agrivoltaics resolution with DSD Renewables (DSD) for managing vegetation at a DSD photo voltaic power web site in Winchester, Va.
The rocky terrain the place DSD’s 1.8 MW ground-mounted challenge is situated made mowing below the arrays tough. The corporate contracted with ESS for a substitute for keep the 7-acre web site at The Village at Orchard Ridge, a Lutheran retirement group. The answer was to contract Katahdin Acres, a member of the American Photo voltaic Grazing Affiliation, and make use of sheep and pigs to handle the vegetation by grazing.
“Agrivoltaics is a really value environment friendly and modern vegetation administration technique that enables photo voltaic to be put in in areas that may not have been thought-about in any other case,” says Conrad Gross, ESS’ normal supervisor.
“Through the use of the photo voltaic grazing affiliation’s listing and partnering with an area enterprise, Katahdin Acres, the Winchester group is successfully working collectively to efficiently generate renewable power the place it might in any other case be unattainable. We’re proud to have facilitated an answer that labored for each DSD and the retirement group to make sure the longevity and success of this photo voltaic array.”
