And NRG has invested in large-scale photovoltaic farms in California and Arizona, both of which have also obtained U.S. Department Energy loan guarantees.
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Families sleep in large plastic greenhouses on farms, tents have been erected in gardens, and homes that were built to house a single family now shelter dozens of people.
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Grid operators in the Pacific Northwest have repeatedly pulled the plug on several large wind farms in Oregon and Washington State, collectively curtailing roughly 13 gigawatt hours (GWh) of wind power since last Wednesday.
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But alas, the record of large farms in Africa has been poor.
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Hogs in the U.S. are primarily raised in large, enclosed buildings on farms that tend to be spaced miles apart from each other.
Moreover, the assessment revealed that participating farms employed 1.1 million workers, and that most large and medium-sized farms in the program made efforts to extend health care and education benefits to workers and their families.
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Indeed, Britain, which has many large farms, is in the forefront of those blocking one obviously desirable change: a ceiling on subsidies for any single recipient.
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Professor du Toit, director of the Mammal Research Unit at Pretoria University, says commercial white-owned farms in Zimbabwe are home to many rare large mammals, including cheetah, black rhino and sable - a type of antelope.
Sixth, 98% of the recipients of the subsidies are small- and medium-sized farmers, even though the programme was not meant to exclude large farms willing to invest and create jobs in the rural areas of our country.
It would also mean that large scale solar farms, like the giant array in Alentejo, Portugal, could increase their output while saving on energy used to track the sun.
Clay cites Perdue Farms as one of the most innovative large companies in employee health care.
Salmon farms have traditionally involved large numbers of fish contained in nets in inshore waters raising a number of environmental issues.
Mr Wheelhouse said only 21% of planning applications for large-scale wind farms considered by government-appoint planning officials in 2012-13 were approved.
The planning paper will make it easier in future for the UK to build large infrastructure projects like these - and wind farms.
The fear of large-scale farms is real, however, among small farming communities and indigenous peoples in Latin America.
They've been able to absorb the extra costs of shipping in hay and sending their animals to feed lots, but for smaller farms and ranchers that experienced large fires, the situation is less optimistic.
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