A Million Watts in Solar Panels Installed at Farm

Planning baby bell peppers, cucumber, and tomatoes for lunch? The locally grown ingredients for that sweet-sounding salad are likely to have come from Santa Maria’s Windset Farms, which recently completed a 1 million watt solar installation atop its packing plant. Set amid acres of greenhouses, where the Canada-based company grows non-genetically modified vegetables and strawberries, the 4,032-panel solar array enables the farm to run its computerized irrigation and ventilation systems on clean energy.