“It’s kind of a punch in the gut,” Carissa Lyle, holding her daughter, Brinley, 1, said of the project, which could surround their home on three sides.
Dennis Lund, who farms about 5,000 acres west of Cambridge with three of his brothers, has agreed to lease about a tenth of his land to a 300-megawatt solar farm. He said income from the arrangement will allow him to keep the land for his children, including Kaylee, 12, and Brayden, 15.
Tara Vasby, who lives on a 5-acre remnant of her family's farm west of Cambridge, is fighting the proposed Koshkonong Solar Center, which she says would devastate the community.
A proposed 300-megawatt solar energy project near Cambridge would be about 15 times larger than Madison Gas and Electric's O'Brien solar plant along Seminole Highway in Fitchburg.
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The proposed 2,400-acre solar energy center has sparked opposition from area residents and the village of Cambridge, which wants some of the land for housing.
Dennis Lund, with three of his children — from left, Brayden, 15, Allison, 19, and Kaylee, 12 — says solar energy will help farmers like him earn a living without selling off land.
A stone memorial to Tara Vasby’s great-grandparents marks the family’s ties to land just west of Cambridge that would be surrounded by solar panels.
