Published on 08/12/2021
Sammy Roth, Chris Megerian
Article snippet: The steel beams cut across the brown dirt like scaffolding baking under the Central Valley sun when the workers pulled up. One maneuvered a tractor towing a trailer stacked with solar panels, while another handed down the panels to eight other laborers. They carefully arranged the gleaming photovoltaics and tilted them toward the sun. Two more workers fastened the panels to steel beams with pneumatic guns. The crew was one of many spread across former farmland on a recent afternoon in Kings County, where Westlands Solar Park is shaping up to be one of the world’s largest renewable energy facilities...
