State and local governments should streamline this encouraging development, allowing solar panels on sub-prime farmland while continuing to preserve the most fertile farmland for strictly agricultural use.
Pennsylvania's targets for renewable energy are set to max out this year unless the General Assembly takes action, and Republican leaders seem ready to leave increasing goals for green energy up to the private sector.
The clean-energy jobs that could be created each year over the next decade in Pennsylvania “are jobs across the board,” said Robert Pollin, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the study’s authors.
The PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center has issued a new report saying Pennsylvania ranks 35th in the nation for percentage of solar and wind in the state's electricity mix and 22nd for growth in solar energy production since 2010.
