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Substation, there can be the a.It/kWh for gross return 

 on the IPPs unit generators. Arguably, competitive 

 Energy Option Offers can come in under two cents per 

 kilowatt-hour . 



CROPS AM klLQWATT!; 



CROPS 4 KILOWATTS offers mutual benefits for either 

 product from the land; electrical energy as a farm 

 commodity! Sharing the necessary automated servicing 

 access to miles of rows and rows of Solar Voltaic Unit 

 Generators, provides a potential in automated, tracked- 

 farming and an easing of environmental and regulatory 

 problems. The array-powered rail-car with robotic SVG 

 servicing equipment can as well provide automated 

 agronomy for a food, feed or fiber crop located between 

 solar-array row. Extensive automated agronomy is 

 already practiced in parts of the country, including 

 soil-preparation, planting, fertilizing, thinning, 

 pruning, irrigating and harvesting . In the Pacific 

 Northwest a fiber crop between SVG-rows could form the 

 basis of a fully automated "synthetic lumber mill' with 

 fiber and resin coming from the crop and microwave 



curing from the electric power making lumber while 



the sun shines. Establishment of some manner of 

 automated agronomy institute at a University could 

 develop new businesses and farm-implements industries 



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