Country's biggest solar project moving ahead in California

NPR | By Dan Charles

Published February 24, 2026 at 4:42 AM EST

An enormous solar project is moving forward in California, on land that farmers have had to keep fallow as the state restricts over-pumping the aquifers they previously used to irrigate crops.

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Dan Charles is NPR's food and agriculture correspondent.

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