OUR APPROACH

At Eden Renewables, we place the community at the heart of our solar developments. We want to ensure that the people living and working near our solar farms have the opportunity to benefit from locally-generated green power. Here are the ways we achieve that:

Helping Pollinators Thrive

Bees, birds and butterflies are extremely important for US food production, but have been in rapid decline for a generation. Our solar farms create wildflower meadows under and around the panels, providing a habitat rich in pollen and nectar, enabling a strong local pollinator population to thrive for the lifetime of the farm and support local agriculture. While many solar farms leave the land bare between the panels, we use it in a positive way to encourage better biodiversity and ecology. Read more and view images from 2018 and 2019.

Improving Air & Water Quality

The US relies mainly on coal and natural gas to generate electricity. Extracting and using these fossil fuels is expensive and is harmful to the air we breathe and water we drink. Solar power helps reduce carbon emissions while keeping our natural resources clean and healthy.

Providing Educational Opportunities

We organize and fund STEM webinars, workshops, and field trips to our community solar farms so that children from local schools can learn about science, technology and energy generation. Additionally, the presence of a solar farm within the local area will raise awareness of renewable energy and may spark an increased interest in STEM and environmental issues. Learn more.

Creating Local Jobs

Where possible, we will employ local people and firms for development, construction, and ongoing maintenance of the land and solar farms. The industry is growing fast. According to The Solar Foundation, the five-year job growth over the last five years is up 27.7%.

Giving Back to the Community

A Host Community Agreement (HCA) or Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) will be established for the lifetime of each of our solar farms. This is likely to amount to several thousand dollars per year. We will work with each community to determine how this fund could bring economic, social, and environmental benefits to the area.

Preserving the Rural Way of Life

Solar panels are installed on land leased from local farmers, providing them with an additional source of income. This helps protect farmers from the volatile nature of the agricultural industry. Our solar farms are also designed to enable sheep grazing around and between the panels, keeping the land in agricultural use. At some sites, we are producing our own ‘solar honey’. At the end of the project’s life cycle, all hardware is dismantled, removed and recycled, returning the farmland back to its original form.

Making COMMUNITIES Greener

Our solar farms foster a sense of local environmental stewardship, making your community a greener, more sustainable place to live and work. Subscribing to our solar farm supports your local community as well as a clean energy future, bringing positive benefits for everyone.