[CPEO-BIF] Coal to solar in West Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mon Power Repurposes Brownfield Sites For Solar Power

By Curtis Tate
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
October 18, 2024

On a winding road just up the hill from a shuttered coal plant, Mon Power is now generating electricity from an array of solar panels.

The Rivesville solar facility doesn’t produce as much power as the coal plant once did, nor the ones Mon Power still operates. It is, though, an example of reusing brownfield sites – in this case a coal ash disposal landfill – to produce clean energy in a state dominated by fossil fuels. 

Doug Hartman, Mon Power’s director of generation services, says state lawmakers made that possible.

“So this is the Rivesville ash site disposal area for the old Rivesville coal plant, and it retired in 2012,” he said. “Senate Bill 583 gave us an opportunity to put an asset on something that’s a legacy liability, and we’re able to put the solar right on top of the site.”


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For the entire story, see
https://wvpublic.org/mon-power-repurposes-brownfield-sites-for-solar-power/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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