AURORA, Colo. — Pivot Energy is "harvesting the sun twice" by providing a home to pollinators at its Aurora solar farm.

Bright yellow flowers can be spotted in between the rows of solar panels at Kacie Peters Community Solar Garden , with bees buzzing on 40 acres of land.

"The flowers and all of the seeding was done before we started construction, and that helps to make sure that all of this vegetation establishes better on site," said Angie Burke, director of operations and maintenance at Pivot Energy. "This site has been operational for almost two years now, and the site overall is five megawatts in size. That means we're powering about 1,200 low-income homes across Colorado."

Burke said the energy is going to Xcel Energy's energy grid, and the lower cost of production results in sa

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