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We're looking forward to participating in the 2024 Annual Georgia Environmental Conference, which begins this week at the Jekyll Island Convention Center. This event is the largest, most comprehensive and diverse environmental education opportunity in the Southeast, and provides a forum for environmental professionals to exchange knowledge and share ideas around environmental concerns in Georgia and across the Southeast region. Silicon Ranch's Connor Echols will join a panel discussing considerations made for protected species in the planning process of projects. The discussion will highlight current regulations, the latest species survey guidelines, conservation measures, approaches toward impact minimization, and lessons learned. We hope to see you there. #MakingSolarDoMore #GEC24

Silicon Ranch has put together a fantastic panel for SXSW, but we need your help to make it on stage. Help us spread the word about #agrivoltaics by voting at the link below. Voting is free and closes on August 18. You're just a couple of clicks away from making the difference! Our panel, "Shepherding The Future: Agriculture and the Energy Transition," will feature our friends and leading regenerative farmers, Roxanne Newton of Hound River Farm and Will Harris of White Oak Pastures, along with our Chief Operating Officer, Boris Schubert, and the Senior Manager of Regenerative Energy Operations, Jim Malooley. The panel will highlight the benefits of the dual use of land for solar and agriculture (agrivoltaics), with Silicon Ranch’s use of managed grazing sheep to control the vegetation under and around solar arrays as a model. Vote for the "Shepherding The Future" panel here: https://lnkd.in/eF62XJer #MakingSolarDoMore

Silicon Ranch is pleased to announce that our Scotford Solar Project has reached commercial operation near Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. Scotford Solar represents an especially significant milestone in our history because it is the first of our projects to be located outside of the United States. Built to support Shell's Energy and Chemicals Park near Edmonton, the 58-megawatt (MWac) facility is the largest behind-the-meter solar project in Canada, and the first utility-scale solar project to be built in Alberta's industrial heartland region. The Scotford Solar Project has the ability to supply Shell’s facility with enough renewable energy to power approximately 20% of the refinery’s energy needs for the next 25 years and to provide 100% of its electricity needs at peak capacity. As with every Silicon Ranch project, this facility will be run according to our distinctive and disciplined business model: we will own, operate, and maintain the project for its entire lifecycle, putting down roots as taxpayers, landowners, and neighbors in local Strathcona County. Read more about the Scotford Solar Project here: https://lnkd.in/dkrG8vEe #MakingSolarDoMore

Solar has an opportunity to help support American shepherds and bring regenerative sheep farming back to the United States in a big way. Learn how we're doing so through #RegenerativeEnergy 🔆🐑 https://lnkd.in/eJ3AFjZK

Thanks to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for hosting Jim Malooley and Bill Johnson of our #RegenerativeEnergy team last month. Jim and Bill spent the day with instructors and a group of 4th year veterinary students while they vasectomized over 30 rams from our company-owned flock of sheep. This partnership is a perfect fit for both Silicon Ranch and for the university's College of Veterinary Medicine. Our shepherds benefit from top-line reproductive services while the students are exposed to the needs of larger small ruminant producers -- a specialty that has become less common among veterinarians after decades of very little demand. We're looking forward to welcoming these students to our DeSoto Solar Farm for a few days of pregnancy scanning in December before they return for a week-long stay during lambing season next Spring. #MakingSolarDoMore

We had cause for celebration at Silicon Ranch on Monday as we cut the ribbon on our office headquarters expansion in Nashville. The growth we've undergone in recent years made this opportunity to provide more space for our Nashville team unmissable, and we're excited to work together in this new collaborative space. #MakingSolarDoMore

Through agrivoltaics, utility-scale solar projects are creating new opportunities for farmers to grow their operations and for aspiring farmers to begin their careers. We’re proud of our partners at Nextracker Inc., who are helping to broaden these opportunities with their recently announced #AgriPV solution to enhance agricultural practices and preserve biodiversity. Learn about Nextracker's light on land approach to the utility-scale solar trackers and how they are helping solar and agriculture co-locate: https://lnkd.in/eHRv4eGs

The latest episode of Silicon Ranch Radio is now live on all podcast platforms. On this episode, our Chief Technology Officer, Nick de Vries, sits down with Rancher, Rangeland Ecosystem Scientist, and Research Lead here at Silicon Ranch, Anna Clare Monlezun, PhD, to discuss grassland ecosystems, sustainable grazing practices, and the co-location of solar energy generation and regenerative agriculture. They also discuss #Cattletracker, the project that Nick and Anna Clare are currently working on together with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to co-locate cattle grazing with PV solar energy generation. You’ll hear about Nick and Anna Clare's shared vision for the future of the American cattle rancher as the conversation progresses. Listen on your podcast platform of choice or on the Silicon Ranch Radio webpage, here: https://lnkd.in/eBP-RNnb

Silicon Ranch's award-winning #RegenerativeEnergy platform is providing new jobs for aspiring young farmers across the US, employing regenerative grazing methods in the new, high-tech context of solar photovoltaic projects. #MakingSolarDoMore #Agrivoltaics