The company says the farm will give jobs to displaced coal miners.
“A Kentucky coal company announced Tuesday that it is planning to build a solar farm on a reclaimed mountaintop removal coal mine and that the project would bring both jobs and energy to the area.
Berkeley Energy Group, the coal company behind the project, billed it as the first large-scale solar farm in the Appalachian region, which has been hit hard by the decades-long decline in the U.S. coal industry. The company, in partnership with EDF Renewable Energy, is currently conducting feasibility studies for the project on two reclaimed strip mines, both located in the eastern part of the state.
Berkeley Energy Group estimates that the solar farm could produce as much as 50 or 100 megawatts of electricity, which would be five to ten times the size of Kentucky’s largest solar farm.”
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And dumb as trump pulled out of the Paris accord cause of coal pollution jobs that old man isn’t gona b around much longer its our children and grandchildren that r gona have to deal with climate change not his stupid ass kids know mor about ozone layer than idiot trump !
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