Only complaint about the abstract is "...without occupying scarce available land".
Land for solar in the county is not scarce. Look up "agrivoltaics". There are good reasons to float solar on reservoirs, that just isn't one.
Land for solar in the county is not scarce. Look up "agrivoltaics". There are good reasons to float solar on reservoirs, that just isn't one.
Also - in SB county, there is an ordinance banning utility-scale solar within the county (thanks local zoning laws....). We get exempted because the reservoir is federal land.
Farmers have grown used to changing their behavior, in recent centuries. The successful ones today did. The successful ones tomorrow will have.
Laws can be changed. In Colorado, they were already. Others will follow.