Jimmy Carter’s solar farm is still powering his hometown and his legacy

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:25:15 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
https://gasanature.org/jimmy-carter-solar-farm/

"In February 2017, Jimmy Carter stood in a field in Plains, Georgia, the same
small town where he was born, where he farmed peanuts, where he would
eventually die at 100 years old, and watched a ribbon get cut on a solar farm
built on land his family had worked for generations. He was 92. The panels
started turning toward the sun. They haven’t stopped since.

Carter passed away on December 29, 2024, peacefully at home in Plains,
surrounded by his family. He was the longest-lived president in American
history. But the solar farm he leased to SolAmerica Energy in 2017 continues to
generate electricity for the town he never left, and has since become a living
piece of his environmental legacy in ways even its builders didn’t anticipate."

Via Esther Schindler.

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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