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Invenergy renewable-energy manager Dan Litchfield shows a single solar panel outside the company’s office in Cobb, Wisconsin.
From left, Aaron, Andrew, Linda, Bob and Brad Bishop are the joint owners of C.R. Bishop & Sons Inc., a family farm near Cobb, Wisconsin. The Bishop family plans to lease about 650 acres of agricultural land for Invenergy’s Badger Hollow Solar Farm, one of the largest solar-utility projects planned for cropland anywhere in the country.
Andrew Bishop, 29, looks out over farmland that could become part of the largest solar farm in the Midwest. The Bishops plan to rent about 650 acres of their land to Invenergy, the company that plans to build a giant solar-power project. Bishop says Badger Hollow Solar Farm will help his family's farm stay in business.
Invenergy renewable-energy manager Dan Litchfield shows patches of farmland that would be turned into the Badger Hollow Solar Farm.
Andrew Bishop, left, and Bob Bishop stand on land owned by their family in Cobb, Wisconsin.
Bob Bishop, left, works with his son, Andrew Bishop, to remove the center section of a transmission on a tractor at their farm.
Andrew Bishop, left, and Bob Bishop take in the view of land owned by their family in Cobb, Wisconsin.
Andrew Bishop is joint owner of C.R. Bishop & Sons Inc.
Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a two-part article.
Sarah Whites-Koditschek joined the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism in 2018 as the Wisconsin Public Radio Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative Reporting Fellow. She’s is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism where she earned a master’s degree at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. Email swhites@wisconsinwatch.org to reach her.
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From left, Aaron, Andrew, Linda, Bob and Brad Bishop are the joint owners of C.R. Bishop & Sons Inc., a family farm near Cobb, Wisconsin. The Bishop family plans to lease about 650 acres of agricultural land for Invenergy’s Badger Hollow Solar Farm, one of the largest solar-utility projects planned for cropland anywhere in the country.
Andrew Bishop, 29, looks out over farmland that could become part of the largest solar farm in the Midwest. The Bishops plan to rent about 650 acres of their land to Invenergy, the company that plans to build a giant solar-power project. Bishop says Badger Hollow Solar Farm will help his family's farm stay in business.
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