New Brunswick dairy farm offsets electric bill with solar power – New Brunswick [Video]

Jesse Mitham is a second-generation farmer.

After years of paying high energy bills, he and his father started a different kind of farm: a solar one.

“In terms of electricity, the cost keeps going up, and it’s always going to go up,” he said in an interview Friday. “I don’t think there is ever going to be a point where it stays steady … we’ve always been interested in green energy. I mean, 25 years ago we were talking about putting up a windmill.”

Rothiemay Farms is a dairy and egg farm with more than 100 heads of cattle and 3,000 chickens.

The solar farm is a ground-mount 100 kW system that offsets all the electricity for the farm. The entire product is engineered and manufactured in the Saint John region.

“We were able to go this route with a decent price and it’s kind of like diversifying for us… we got diversified to put money …