Kenosha County is preparing for the future of a new “farming” industry – one that relies on virtually no fertilizer but depends on lots of sunlight.On Tuesday night the County Board unanimously approved changes to its zoning ordinance that will allow for the conditional use of smaller-scale solar energy systems, aka “solar farms” on properties that were previously used for agriculture. The ordinance also received unanimous approval from the Planning and Development Committee last month.The concept of solar farming isn’t new to Kenosha County as construction on a 200-megawatt system – enough electricity to power 60,000 homes each year – is already well underway in the Town of Paris. The Paris Solar Energy Center LLC, Wisconsin’s first and largest utility-scale solar farm with battery back up located on 1,500 acres of a 5,300-plus acre parcel about 1.5…
County prepares for dawn of solar energy systems; small megawatt solar farm proposal for Wheatland prompts ordinance change
