Solar shepherds, who manage sheep grazing under solar panels, are part of a growing movement that combines agriculture and renewable energy — and offers high incomes in the process.

Officials at Conestoga College have enlisted the help of sheep to maintain the grass and weeds on land at their Fountain Street campus location where the college has 1,800 solar panels.

Ranchers from New York to California have been some of the projects’ first beneficiaries. The number of solar power sites using sheep to graze the grass and pervasive Russian thistle that grow around ...

The sheep will remain in the park until the end of June, grazing in areas with at least 60% buffelgrass cover. Later in the year, the areas will be treated with herbicide to destroy the grass roots.

Dominion Energy employs 17,000 people across the country. Now, about 1,000 sheep work for the power company as well. In a process known as solar grazing, sheep consume vegetation on solar farms to ...

Profits from solar sheep grazing also can disappear if sheep are attacked by predators, which include wolves, coyotes, domestic dogs, bobcats, lions, bears and even eagles.

Business models for solar shepherds Our study evaluated the profitability of agrivoltaic sheep grazing and lamb husbandry business models in Ontario using case studies at two scales: small solar ...

Solar sheep in action at Whispering Cedars Ranch in Strathmore, Alta. Business models for solar shepherds Our study evaluated the profitability of agrivoltaic sheep grazing and lamb husbandry ...