The Executive Director of the Kentucky Conservation Committee, Lane Boldman, explains “merchant solar” and some of the controversy it engenders (https://kyconservation.org/solar-lands). Noting that clean energy is not always responsible or just energy, she defends the importance of transparency and community engagement in controversial topics such as this, a lesson we natural scientists would do well to learn.
See Citizen’s Resource Guide on Large Scale Merchant Solar at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tEAsX9jbU9xsR12oPQsMueaSYQOa-7Qz/view
Music by Joseph Vincelli Group