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Senior diplomats from Korea and the United States discussed the need for a joint response to potential ramifications from overcapacity in China s solar industry during their talks on energy security in Houston, Texas this week, a Seoul official said Friday.
The solar industry is pushing into the US Midwest, drawn by cheaper land rentals, access to electric transmission and a wealth of federal and state incentives.
Solar energy companies are leasing thousands of acres of land from Midwestern farmers, which can hinder crop-growing or grazing livestock there. It’s a tradeoff between expanding renewables and giving up future yields.
Dave Duttlinger s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen.