Clarification

Published 12:00 am Friday, May 30, 2014

O2 Energies CEO Joel Olsen, who hopes to build a solar energy farm near Rockwell, said he does not use sheep for lawn maintenance to pay less property tax and expects that solar farms with livestock will not qualify for the agricultural exemption. Rather, O2 Energies places livestock on its solar farms to have a more sustainable way to maintain vegetation under the solar panels.