At the Madison County Fairgrounds over cups of ice cream from Miller's Olde Fashioned Ice Cream and packets of sunflower seeds, solar energy developers pitched residents on harvesting more than soybeans and corn on their fields.
The central Ohio county west of Columbus has been fertile ground for solar farms, including the possible development of 6,300 acres owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Local leaders largely back the projects, which could raise as much as $3.9 million annually for a rural school district over the next 20 or even 40 years.
The story is different in northwest Ohio's Seneca County, where yellow yard signs declare: "No Wind Turbines in Seneca County." Residents there worried about the potential damage, property value hit and overall nuisance of wind turbines the size of Cincinnati's Carew Tower or Columbus' LeVeque Tower.
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