Agriculture cooperative Land O’Lakes subscribes to community solar projects

Farmer-owned agricultural cooperative Land O’Lakes has subscribed to three community solar gardens in Woodbury, Minnesota, near its Saint Paul headquarters. The community solar projects are owned and operated by C2 Energy Capital, offering farmers resources to mitigate environmental impacts.

“Land O’Lakes stewardship efforts supporting farmers, ag retailers and food companies is impressive. We are pleased to work with an organization that holds our same values for quality and is creating a win-win situation for its members and the environment,” said Candice Michalowicz, co-founder and managing member of C2 Energy Capital.

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The community solar projects total over 4 MW in size and are installed with SolarEdge inverter technology, which meets rapid shutdown requirements. The arrays are expected to produce more than 2,000,000 kWh per year.

As one of the largest farmer-owned agriculture cooperatives in the United States, Land O’Lakes launched its sustainability solutions business unit, Truterra, in 2016 to advance and connect its stewardship efforts throughout the food system with scale.

“Within the farming community, our stewardship is defined by continuous improvement of the air, soil, water and safeguarding of our natural resources for generations,” said Bryan Crane, senior manager, commodity & energy risk at Land O’Lakes. “We have seen firsthand that C2 Energy Capital shares that same kind of continuous commitment to the construction, maintenance, and operations of their solar farms and we are confident we are in good hands for decades to come.”

C2 Energy Capital’s renewable energy project portfolio includes over 120 operating projects that span 16 states including landfill solar, distributed generation, commercial and industrial, large-scale and community solar projects. With deep solar project financing and development knowledge, C2 Energy Capital brings a successful track record of decades of project acquisition, development and completion.

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Original Source: https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/11/agriculture-cooperative-land-olakes-subscribes-to-community-solar-projects/