When Carissa and Nathan Lyle were expecting their first child in 2017, they bought an old farmhouse on about three acres just west of Rockdale.
“We just wanted to be in the country, to have that environment for our kids to grow up in,” Carissa said. So Carissa was stunned last winter when she saw engineering plans for a proposed 2,400-acre solar farm that would wrap around three sides of their home.