Kosovo solar farm goes even greener, using sheep to mow the grass

Sheeps and goats graze twice a week at the Rogane solar farm in eastern Kosovo where more than 12,000 photovoltaic panels are installed.

When workers at a solar energy farm in Kosovo got tired of wasting their own energy cutting the grass around their solar panels, they turned to a greener and much more powerful mowing machine: a flock of sheep.

More than 100 sheep and a few goats graze twice a week at the Rogane solar farm near the small town of Kamenica in eastern Kosovo where more than 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 kind of grass here, good or bad grass, and they clean everything. We are all benefiting.”

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