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\"Solar<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

By Dale Kasler<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Changala family farm in Tulare County, the past and future are separated by a dirt road and a barbed-wire fence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the south side sits a wheat field. On the north, a solar farm, built three years ago, sending electricity to thousands of Southern Californians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan Changala sees little difference between the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still farming the sun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farmers in the San Joaquin Valley are finding a lucrative new cash crop: solar electricity. As they struggle to cope with the Valley\u2019s chronic water shortages, they\u2019ve increasing turned to solar as a means of supplementing their revenue and keeping the remainder of their farming operations afloat. An estimated 13,000 acres of Valley farmland already have been converted to solar farms, said Erica Brand, the California energy program director at the Nature Conservancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now solar energy is about to swallow even larger patches of Valley farmland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning in January, California\u2019s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, will require farmers across the state to gradually reduce the amount of groundwater they can extract from their wells. In the Valley, where groundwater basins have been seriously depleted by decades of over-pumping, the Public Policy Institute of California predicts that at least 535,000 acres of Valley farmland <\/a>could be permanently retired over the next 20 years as farmers curtail their water consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The institute estimated that 50,000 idled acres could go solar, converting some of the world\u2019s most productive tomato farms, pistachio orchards and dairies into vast fields of teal-colored photovoltaic panels, delivering electricity to the four corners of California\u2019s power grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the solar rush won\u2019t rescue the Valley\u2019s struggling economic base from the ravages of the groundwater law. Simply put, solar farms create few permanent jobs. They\u2019re major employers when they\u2019re under construction but turn into ghost towns once the solar panels become operational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When panels were being installed on the Changala farm in 2015 and 2016, workers were everywhere. \u201cThey brought them in, in school buses,\u201d Changala said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, however, the site is a job-free zone, except for the occasional maintenance employee who arrives to make repairs. The day-to-day work is performed remotely, out of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scarcity of permanent employees is a drag on the economy. In Kern County, where thousands of acres of land have been converted to solar, farmland that\u2019s been taken out of production \u201cdoesn\u2019t pay for libraries,\u201d said Lorelei Oviatt, the county\u2019s planning and natural resources director. \u201cWe have 900,000 people who live in Kern County who need jobs and services and quality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local government officials also say solar doesn\u2019t pay its way as a tax generator. They are dismayed about a tax break, bestowed years ago by the Legislature, that lets project owners avoid paying property taxes on the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of solar panels they\u2019ve installed on their facilities. In other words, the properties are taxed as if they\u2019re still being used for agriculture. The tax break is in effect until 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no longer an infant industry. Fifteeen years later, solar is doing very well, thank you very much,\u201d said Paul Smith, vice president for government affairs at Rural County Representatives of California. \u201cIt\u2019s a concern for the long-term health of counties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar does nourish California\u2019s insatiable hunger for renewable energy, <\/a>however. California utilities get one-third of their power from renewable sources and, by state law, have to raise that figure to 60 percent by 2030 and 100 percent by 2045.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar could be a big part of the solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou could theoretically see the San Joaquin (Valley) single-handedly be able to meet California\u2019s renewable energy goals,\u201d said Daniel Kim, a vice president at Golden State Clean Energy, which plans to develop one of the world\u2019s largest solar projects on farmland that was retired years ago near Naval Air Station Lemoore in Kings County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom a region that has relied primarily on agriculture, you could create the hub for new energy, and the new economy,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Con Edison, the big New York utility, spent\u00a0$1.6 billion last year buying solar<\/a>\u00a0farms in multiple states, including at least five in the Valley. The Wonderful Co., the pistachio mega-grower controlled by Southern California billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick, earlier this year announced plans to build three solar farms on a total of 157 acres it owns in Kern and Madera counties. All of the electricity produced on the solar farms will be used to power Wonderful\u2019s farming operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golden State Clean Energy \u2014 backed by the financial muscle of Los Angeles real estate investment firm CIM Group \u2014 expects to break ground later this year on the 4,000-acre first phase of its project, known as Westlands Solar Park<\/a>. Kim said the project eventually will consume 20,000 acres of land in Kings County, about half of which is owned by Westlands Water District, the big farm-irrigation agency serving the west side of the Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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