Posted on 09/05/2017 8:07:23 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Solar farms are cropping up in Will County
As harvest season approaches, some Will County farmers may already be considering alternatives to the future of their corn and soybean fields. They are learning that the sun they now rely on to produce vegetables, could be harnessed into a new cash crop.
Empowered by Illinois' new Future Energy Jobs Act, solar companies have approached area farmers in recent weeks about converting a portion of their property into solar farms.
Cypress Creek Renewables, which currently operates solar farms in eight states, has an agreement with a landowner in Crete Township to convert 45 acres on Goodenow Road into a five MegaWatt solar farm, enough to power 800 homes, said Scott Novack, Cypress' senior developer. They are looking for more sites.
Frankfort officials have just begun to discuss a concept for a 32-acre community solar farm that could generate enough energy to power 1,200 homes, according to developer Josh Barrett, of Solarshift LLC, Homer Glen.
"This is totally new to us," said Mark Schneidewind, manager of the Will County Farm Bureau. About 100 farmers recently received letters from a few different companies and about a dozen have retained a lawyer to negotiate the finer details, he said.
With offers of $800 per acre, compared to $160 to $180 for a really good crop yield, some older farmers are considering this as a steady cash flow as they head into retirement, Schneidewind said.
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So Democrat Illinois with approval from RINO Gov. Rauner are paying off Illinois farmers not to farm.
Any hail storms in the forecast?
Farming gummint grants...
Not just that. Consider the "butterfly effect". Small initial changes lead to greater changes in the future. Do these solar farms have a long term effect on the environment?
Wouldn't it be something if they cause climate change.
How many gopher tortoises have to die?
Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act Goes into Effect
New landmark energy legislation results in bill changes for residential customers, savings and paving the way for the new clean energy economy
Jul 06, 2017
The Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA) went into effect as Illinois law on June 1 and will result in some immediate savings and a few line item changes on ComEd residential customer monthly statements.
FEJA, energy legislation that passed the Illinois General Assembly with broad bipartisan support and was signed into law by Governor Rauner last year, helps to pivot Illinois to the new clean economy by growing renewable energy resources and significantly expanding energy efficiency programs that help customers save energy and money.
“Any hail storms in the forecast?”
or tornadoes
So they need to eat up only 400 square miles of prime IL farmland to power every household in Illinois. Of course, it would get pretty dark and chilly in those households after 4:30 PM around Christmas time, but that’s prime baby-making time. “Hey, babe, pull that comforter up...it’s cold in here.” Population growth will do wonders for keeping the moslem hordes out. And farmers get to retire rich. It’s a win-win-win all the way around.
they totally ruined the landscape in Mclean county with the wind mills. Total joke.
Yeah, when we moved across country we were offended by some in the middle of NFW Kansas. Then, a couple weeks ago we were doing a scenic run in eastern NV and in the middle of NFW NV we stumbled on some more. Ugly suckers.
I just did some quick research. There are a lot of questions about the impact of solar panels. It's too early to say that solar farms are more environmentally friendly or practical than traditional energy sources.
Why is that?
I think they’re totally worthless, in fact I’m not even sure they’re functional. No wind, nada, and they’re moving? All of them? No way.
But, did they make someone feel good about themselves? That’s what’s important.
Rauner needs to go. As does every single Illinois politician independent of whether they have an (R) or (D) after their name.
Spare none, start over.
Solar farms are downright fugly and I suspect have very little impact upon energy production and cost/savings/maintenance etc. Wouldn’t it be nice if we used nice land for real farming?
Renewables are useless: The Evidence is Overwhelming
Eric Worrall / March 29, 2016
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/29/renewables-are-useless-the-evidence-is-overwhelming/
With offers of $800 per acre, compared to $160 to $180 for a really good crop yield, some older farmers are considering this as a steady cash flow as they head into retirement, Schneidewind said.
I have read the contracts on the windmills. They promise to remove them and the concrete to below 18 inches from the surface. Does anyone believe there will be any money for that............................
Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy
We urgently need to stop the ecological posturing and invest in gas and nuclear
Matt Ridley
The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly boasting that ‘the proliferation of wind energy into the global power market continues at a furious pace, after it was revealed that more than 54 gigawatts of clean renewable wind power was installed across the global market last year’.
You may have got the impression from announcements like that, and from the obligatory pictures of wind turbines in any BBC story or airport advert about energy, that wind power is making a big contribution to world energy today. You would be wrong. Its contribution is still, after decades — nay centuries — of development, trivial to the point of irrelevance.
Here’s a quiz; no conferring. To the nearest whole number, what percentage of the world’s energy consumption was supplied by wind power in 2014, the last year for which there are reliable figures? Was it 20 per cent, 10 per cent or 5 per cent? None of the above: it was 0 per cent. That is to say, to the nearest whole number, there is still no wind power on Earth.
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