Jones Dairy Farm Hosts New Solar Array – Generating Energy to Power 400+ Homes

We Energies recently completed a 12-acre solar energy field consisting of 7,128 solar panels on Jones Dairy Farm property. It’s part of Solar Now, an innovative program that produces clean, renewable energy for all customers.

Under the Solar Now pilot program, which the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin approved, We Energies partners with large businesses, nonprofits, and government customers across the state to host solar panels. As a result, the solar panels generate energy that We Energies redirects back to the community’s energy grid.

“As a long-standing Wisconsin-based family-owned company, we saw participating in the Solar Now program as the right choice,” said Philip Jones, 6th generation CEO and Chairman of Jones Dairy Farm. “Helping reduce carbon emissions and providing clean, renewable energy was an easy decision to make,” he added.

We Energies says the solar panels on Jones Dairy Farm can produce 2.25 megawatts (MW). That’s enough energy to power over 400 homes. We Energies and WEC Energy Group aim to reduce carbon emissions 60% by 2025. They plan to reduce emissions 80% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels.

Jones Dairy Farm joins other Wisconsin-based partners like Harley-Davidson, University of Wisconsin — Parkside, the City of Racine, and Washington County in the Solar Now program.

The seventh-generation family business is based in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. They have made breakfast sausage for over 130 years using an original family recipe. Jones produces various breakfast meats with simple ingredients. These include natural sausage, smoked ham, Canadian bacon, dry-aged bacon, and braunschweiger.