Source: RICHMOND COUNTY DAILY JOURNAL, 3/20/18

The solar farm behind Rockingham Speedway is one of six, which vary in size, in Richmond County. Another has been approved and not built, while the latest proposed farm awaits approval. North Carolina is the second-largest solar-producing state in the nation, behind California. North Carolina has had a 40-year love affair with solar energy, the latest offspring of which are so-called solar farms: rows and rows of glass panels tilting their gray faces toward the sun.

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