‘We are all benefitting’: Why has this Kosovan solar farm brought in sheep?
A solar farm in Kosovo and Austria’s biggest PV plant have brought in some woolly helpers - here’s why.
A solar farm in Kosovo has brought in a new clean-energy machine to mow its grass: a flock of sheep.
Tired of wasting their own energy to keep the site trimmed, workers at the Rogane solar farm near the small town of Kamenica in eastern Kosovo have got some woolly helpers.
More than 100 sheep and a few goats graze twice a week in the fields where over 12,000 photovoltaic panels are installed.
"The workers realised that mowing the fields was very hard, they asked me whether I could bring my sheep," said 72-year-old shepherd Rexhep Rrudhani as he ordered his sheepdogs to manoeuvre the flock grazing under the panels.
"The sheep eat all kinds of grass here, good or bad grass, and they clean everything. We are all benefiting."
It’s one of many eye-catching accommodations across Europe, as renewable projects find ways to harmonise with the land- and cityscapes they’re slotting into.
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How is Kosovo’s energy transition going?Kosovo has between 12-14 billion tonnes of proven low-grade lignite coal reserves, the fifth largest in the world.
More than 90 per cent of its electricity is produced from coal and the rest is from renewables, mainly wind and solar.
The country aims to phase out coal by 2050.
Producing power from the sun and cutting grass with sheep means things here go green twice.
"We are not spending any petrol running lawnmowers," said Arber Maliqi, manager of the solar plant. "Producing power from the sun and cutting grass with sheep means things here go green twice."
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