{"id":26888,"date":"2022-07-07T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=26888"},"modified":"2022-07-07T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:01:25","slug":"schattman-discusses-mccain-foods-solar-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2022\/07\/07\/schattman-discusses-mccain-foods-solar-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Schattman discusses McCain Foods\u2019 solar initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22650 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"solar panels in field with sky and clouds\" width=\"221\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-317x211.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-423x282.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-634x422.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-846x563.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-951x633.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/02\/solar-panels-in-field-american-public-power-association-513dBrMJ_5w-unsplash-cropped-smaller-1268x844.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,221px\" \/>In a recent article, <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/rachel-schattman\/\">Rachel Schattman<\/a>, a University of Maine assistant professor of sustainable agriculture and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralmaine.com\/2022\/07\/05\/mccain-foods-aims-to-power-half-of-aroostook-plant-with-solar-gardens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centralmaine.com<\/a> about McCain Foods\u2019 plan to power 50% of its Easton, Maine potato processing plant with five community solar gardens. The effort is part of an overall attempt to completely power all of its plants with renewable energy by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest impacts that farms have (on climate change) is energy consumption. \u2026 Research shows us that we get the most bang for our buck by just not using as much energy and by really investing in energy efficiency and moving away from fossil fuels,\u201d Schattman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article, Rachel Schattman, a University of Maine assistant professor of sustainable agriculture and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, spoke with Centralmaine.com about McCain Foods\u2019 plan to power 50% of its Easton, Maine potato processing plant with five community solar gardens. The effort is part of an overall attempt to completely power all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26889,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26888\/revisions\/26889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}