Klekner Solar Energy Solutions

09/02/2026

Just going to leave this here.

Baltimore Gas and Electric wants to raise rates for residential electric customers as part of its ongoing push for higher distribution fees.The Office of People

08/08/2026

It’s a great day to have a great day!☀️Especially knowing another farm is now out of the grips of the conventional electric company

08/01/2026

New 40 panel ground mount providing 100% of this Frederick, MD farms power. No more utility co volatility, lower operating costs, better margins. Plus the donkeys love the shade

Have a farm and not thrilled with your electric bill every month? Give us a call

07/07/2026

Food for growing, food for thought

When people first started opposing solar on farmland, the biggest concern was that it would take productive farmland out of agriculture.

I get it. Farmland is valuable, and none of us wants to see it wasted.

So the industry responded, and something new was born: solar grazing. Solar grazing, a form of agrivoltaics (farming under and around solar panels), isn’t anything new. It’s been done in Europe for decades.

But here in the United States, it took off quickly, with the number of solar graziers doubling between 2020 and 2024.

Sheep have been the traditional “plug-and-play” option. They work well on virtually any solar site. They don’t jump or chew (like goats), and their small, nimble bodies make it easy for them to maneuver under and around panels to eat the vegetation.

Grazing with sheep provided a valuable service to solar companies that needed the vegetation managed anyway. And for sheep farmers, solar grazing was huge, providing an additional revenue stream, access to land, and improved environmental conditions (with added shading and moisture retention benefiting their flocks).

Yet shortly after, the conversation shifted again. People argued that solar grazing “isn’t real farming,” since there isn’t enough demand for lamb. Therefore, grazing sheep isn’t a “meaningful agricultural use.”

And while 70% of our lamb supply is imported, signalling that there IS in fact a demand that needs to be filled, I don’t disagree with this fact: Americans eat far more beef than they do lamb (about 1 lb of lamb per person, annually, versus 60 lbs of beef, per person).

So we went back to the drawing board.

We’ll always graze sheep on solar sites. They work great on sites that weren’t planned with agricultural dual use in mind. And we’re sheep farmers at heart.

But we also recognize that there’s a huge demand for local, affordable beef. And we want to help fill it. We’ve raised beef since 2022, but this season marks the first time that our cattle have grazed solar.

Worth noting is that the site pictured here was not designed for cattle and has tracking panels that are slightly more elevated when fully flat, but when they tip to follow the sun, look much like traditional layouts and are low.

And the cows are doing fine.

We’re not the first people to do this. Cattlevoltaics is growing, and we stand on the shoulders of many talented researchers and ranchers who came before us, who’ve been daring enough to experiment and to continue to test the boundaries of what’s possible.

First, it was sheep. Now it’s cattle. Tomorrow it could be something else. Agriculture has never stood still.

And neither will we.

05/07/2026

Never having to dread your electric bill each month is a pretty great feeling

04/10/2026

Checkin in on this older system in Parkton, MD that keeps on going and going and going

04/10/2026

Fresh new system completed in MoGo County. 20 panels and 2 batteries did the trick. No electric bills, check. No power outages, check. One happy homeowner, chhhheck