(The Center Square) - The North Unit Irrigation District (NUID) in Central Oregon will receive a $2.5 million federal taxpayer grant to construct and monitor solar panels on the main canal of its Deschutes project. The irrigation district aims to have floating photovoltaic solar panels on the main canal of the Deschutes project located near Bend.T he project will let the floating solar panels on a canal be "evaluated, designed, and built to study the water... Read this story