solar farm

noun

plural solar farms

: a large installation of typically ground-mounted solar panels that generates electricity for distribution by a public utility

City, state, and federal officials converged on the solar farm … to talk about the opportunities for green energy …

—Kevin G. Andrade

called also solar park

Examples of solar farm in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In October, China constructed a solar farm complex on the Tibetan Plateau which is seven times the size of Manhattan, as part of its transition to renewable power. —Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025

Every wildfire that takes down a transmission line, every flood that swallows a road, every heatwave that makes a solar farm falter all slow the very systems meant to replace fossil fuels. —Natalie Unterstell, Time, 6 Nov. 2025

The solar farm provides electricity to PG&E and Apple. —Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025

Currently, most solar farms consist of flat panels laid out across the ground or on rooftops. —New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for solar farm

• firearm
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• forearm
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• nonfarm
• rearm
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