BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 5, 2024
State leaders will discuss how to balance solar growth with agricultural uses when they update Maine’s climate change plan this year. The discussions will include undeveloped land as well, said Anthony Ronzio, deputy director of strategic communications and public affairs in the governor’s office of policy innovation and the future. Although five years have passed since solar array projects began their rapid growth across Maine, the future of their relationship to agriculture in the state remains uncertain. Just one man has made a business out of grazing sheep under Maine’s solar arrays since 2020.