Agricultural Integration Plan: Managed Sheep Grazing & Beekeeping

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EDF Renewables, Inc.

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Agrivoltaic Solutions, LLC

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Morris Ridge Solar Energy Center
Case No. 18-F-0440

"The Morris Ridge Solar Project is a proposed solar farm on approximately 1,060 acres in the Town of Mount Morris, southern Livingston County, New York. The project site is within an area farmed primarily in a cash cropping rotation. The Morris Ridge Solar project is being designed to integrate agricultural uses, including a managed grazing system that utilizes sheep grazing to control vegetation growth under and around the solar panels. Sheep grazing is a method of vegetation control used on solar facilities around the world and is increasingly being used in the Northeastern United States to provide a solution that can promote and incorporate an agricultural use within a solar photovoltaic facility."