🐔 A farm that cuts its electricity bill by 74% AND gives its chickens shade from summer heat?

Handsome Brook Farms, an organic pasture-raised egg producer in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, just finished 9 ground-mounted solar projects totaling 579.7 kW across its farms. One farmer saw a 74.23% drop in his annual electric bill with 100% uptime since day one.

The ground-mounted panels pull double duty: clean power on top, shade for the hens below. The chickens roam between the arrays and the barn, staying cooler during intense summer heat.

The economics are real too. With federal tax credits, accelerated depreciation, and a USDA REAP grant, the payback is about 3 years. After that, power is basically free for the 25-year warranty period.

It offsets about 668 metric tons of CO2 annually. Not bad for a bunch of chickens and some panels.

Read more:
solarpowerworldonline.com/2026…
wattagnet.com/egg/article/1583…

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Emergent Solar installs nine on-farm solar projects for organic egg farms

Emergent Solar Energy has completed nine on-site solar projects for Handsome Brook Farms, a producer of organic pasture-raised and free-range eggs.

^{Kelly Pickerel (Solar Power World)}