Volkswagen is using a flock of 100 sheep to graze at its solar farm at the company’s Poznań plant in Poland, replacing mechanical lawnmowers. The sheep graze beneath thousands of solar panels—31,000 panels powering the facility—at a site designed as an agrivoltaics project. The installation, built by Quanta Energy, has an 18.3 MW capacity and supplies about 25% of the factory’s annual electricity. Volkswagen also works with Poznań University of Life Sciences on research connected to the grazing, including how the livestock affects biodiversity, soil conditions, and animal welfare. The goal is to assess whether agricultural practices integrated with solar generation can coexist with industrial energy production. Several outlets report that the initiative is tied to broader study and monitoring rather than only operational groundskeeping.