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Cultivate Power used a mounting system developed by Planted Solar to build the Bowes Solar project on an irregular 22-acre site in Elgin, Illinois, despite the presence of power lines, railway tracks, and a wetland. The design reduces the land requirement for community solar projects to about two acres per megawatt-peak, enabling the use of land that had previously been difficult to develop.