The first phase of the Koshkonong Solar Farm near Cambridge, above, is nearing completion. Now, Chicago-based Invenergy is proposing a second project about half the size of the first, which is dividing rural residents.
TOWN OF CHRISTIANA — Residents of this small farming community in eastern Dane County spent years fighting what was then Wisconsin’s largest solar farm.
Invenergy developer Sam Heagney fields questions from residents opposed to an expanded solar project in the town of Christiana in June.
Tara Vasby’s home on Clear View Road in Cambridge is surrounded on three sides by solar panels. Vasby said she has stopped driving on certain roads near her house because the sight of hills covered in solar panels upsets her too much. A former staff member to Democrats in the state Legislature, Vasby said she has concluded that “neither party is interested in saving rural Wisconsin” by giving local governments the tools to stop or shape them.
Dane County Sup. Kerry Marren drives through the evolving Koshkonong Solar Farm project near Cambridge. The large-scale projects have changed the character of the small rural community, she said, driving up the price of farmland.
Tara Vasby, whose property abuts the Koshkonong Solar Farm project in Cambridge, looks out an array of recently installed panels near her property.
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Invenergy developer Sam Heagney fields questions from residents opposed to an expanded solar project in the town of Christiana in June.
Dane County Sup. Kerry Marren drives through the evolving Koshkonong Solar Farm project near Cambridge. The large-scale projects have changed the character of the small rural community, she said, driving up the price of farmland.
Tara Vasby, whose property abuts the Koshkonong Solar Farm project in Cambridge, looks out an array of recently installed panels near her property.
Tara Vasby’s home on Clear View Road in Cambridge is surrounded on three sides by solar panels. Vasby said she has stopped driving on certain roads near her house because the sight of hills covered in solar panels upsets her too much. A former staff member to Democrats in the state Legislature, Vasby said she has concluded that “neither party is interested in saving rural Wisconsin” by giving local governments the tools to stop or shape them.
The first phase of the Koshkonong Solar Farm near Cambridge, above, is nearing completion. Now, Chicago-based Invenergy is proposing a second project about half the size of the first, which is dividing rural residents.
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