Nature Conservancy to build solar farms at abandoned coal mines in Virginia
by Steve Hanley

CleanTechnica    Translate This Article
7 March 2022

On 7 March 2022 CleanTechnica reported: In 2019, the Nature Conservancy acquired 253,000 acres of forest in the central Appalachian Mountains that it calls the Cumberland Forest Project. ... The Cumberland Forest includes several abandoned mine sites scattered throughout Virginia coal country. Those mines have large areas that are flat and exposed to sunlight -- a rarity in the mountains and the by-product of strip mining that literally takes the tops off of mountains to get at the coal below. What's left behind are open plains where none existed before. One advantage of such abandoned mining sites is that they are close to electrical transmission lines, which means there is no need to build expensive new infrastructure to connect the electricity from solar farms to the grid. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

'We've identified the Appalachians as one of the most important places on Earth for us to do conservation,' Brad Kreps, the Nature Conservancy's Clinch Valley program director, tells the Washington Post. 'We put the Appalachians in a very rare company along with the Amazon, the wild lands of Kenya and the forests of Borneo.'

6 former mining sites owned by the Nature Conservancy will become the first utility scale solar farms in the region in cooperation with partners Dominion Energy and Sun Tribe. The hope is that converting those six abandoned sites will serve as a model that can be replicated nationwide.

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