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Making the switch to solar power

Enterprise Hill Farm at Norwalk, Ohio is making the switch to solar power.

“Well long term I think it has a better chance of working out than wind because like the last few days that were high electric use days, the wind wasn’t blowing,” said Kurt Heyman with Enterprise Hill Farm. “There’s less moving parts with it, we like that, I guess the rest of the feelings about it will be determined after a year or two and we see how it works.”

The 50-kilowatt solar power system will supply about two-thirds of the power used on the farm.

Audio: Kurt Heyman, farmer, Norwalk, Ohio (3:05 mp3)

While the Heyman’s solar system is the first in Ohio installed by Ecojiva, the company has already installed 96 systems on farms in Michigan.