{"id":10031,"date":"2017-02-10T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10031"},"modified":"2017-02-10T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:37:29","slug":"jimmy-carter-leases-his-land-to-solar-power-much-of-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/jimmy-carter-leases-his-land-to-solar-power-much-of-plains\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Jimmy Carter leases his land to solar power much of Plains&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em>, former President Jimmy Carter is doing a new kind of farming these days.\u00a0 He has recently leased a field used in the past to grow soybeans as a solar power facility.\u00a0 The field of solar collectors, which turn to track the sun, will be able to power approximately 215 homes.\u00a0 The Southeast is one of the best areas in the country for solar power due to our low latitude and abundant sunshine, although humidity and cloud cover does tend to reduce its effectiveness.\u00a0 You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/jimmy-carter-leases-his-land-solar-power-much-plains\/XwFS50Kf1wEI9fXxpvSUnM\/?ecmp=newspaper_email\/#user\/access\/9e6c.5ad1efd6.1486743000.429a8a2e-4d52-49db-ba87-4a51cbf9976a\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10032\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/Carter-Farms-Array-with-Plains-in-Background.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10032\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/Carter-Farms-Array-with-Plains-in-Background-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/Carter-Farms-Array-with-Plains-in-Background-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/Carter-Farms-Array-with-Plains-in-Background-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/Carter-Farms-Array-with-Plains-in-Background-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/Carter-Farms-Array-with-Plains-in-Background.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From peanut farmer to solar farmer . . . A view of the new solar &#8220;farm&#8221; on land owned by former President Jimmy Carter, with the city of Plains seen in the background. Nearly four decades after he turned heads by installing solar panels on the White House roof as part of his push to increase &#8220;clean&#8221; energy use in America, Carter has leased part of his property to SolAmerica. The Atlanta based company says more than 50 percent of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter&#8217;s hometown will be solar-powered as a result.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, former President Jimmy Carter is doing a new kind of farming these days.\u00a0 He has recently leased a field used in the past to grow soybeans as a solar power facility.\u00a0 The field of solar collectors, which turn to track the sun, will be able to power approximately 215 homes.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10034,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions\/10034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}