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 at Sullivan's Ledge Wednesday to talk about the opportunities for green energy presented by the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

—Kevin G. Andrade

called also solar park

Examples of solar farm in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

If that architecture is leaky, expensive, and brittle, the more visible parts of the transition, batteries, windmills, and solar farms, are harder to deploy at scale. —Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025

The Paris Solar-Battery Park in Kenosha County combines a massive solar farm with a powerful battery storage system to make renewable energy available day and night. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025

Renewable energy companies and their projects—largely, wind and solar farms—tend to fit that profile. —Justin Worland, Time, 19 Sep. 2025

The headliner is a sprawling solar farm that generates 75% of the factory’s electricity. —Ethan Karp, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for solar farm

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