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By Joshua Dixon Staff Writer  -- Posted Mar. 16, 2015 at 12:01 AM “It was kind of a pipe dream of mine years ago, but the industry wasn’t quite ready yet,”?said Dick Weltsch of the two 200+ solar panel arrays now behind his implement dealership in Redwood Falls.  “We looked at the costs of electricity — fixed costs — and they get to be very expensive. That number keeps going up, and it can be a weight on a business,” said Dick Weltsch, co-owner of Weltsch Equipment, Inc., this week.     Weltsch was discussing...

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Submitted by Kristi Loobeek on Tue, 07/23/2013 - 12:41pm Region: Southwest  West Central It was a beautiful day to tour the state’s largest solar photovoltaic (PV) installation on July 19th, 2013 in Slayton, Minnesota. With the sun high and bright in the sky and only puffy white clouds to speak of, 35 members of SW/WC CERT toured the 7.5 football fields worth of solar panels working at maximum capacity. Keep reading to learn more and see lots of photos. The day started with a informal lunch at the town’s Pizza...