Solar Farms Are Booming in the US and Putting Thousands of Hungry Sheep to Work
19th January 2025
Cue ‘Sheep Will Safely Graze’ from Handel’s Messiah.
Sheepherder JR Howard accidentally found himself in the middle of Texas’ burgeoning clean energy transition. In 2021, he and his family began contracting with solar farms — sites with hundreds of thousands of solar modules — to use his sheep to eat the grass.
What was once a small business has turned into a full-scale operation with more than 8,000 sheep and 26 employees.
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good.