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The brownfield ‘coal-to-solar’ project reviving a Kentucky community

May 9, 2025
BrightNight made community engagement central to its plans for a 201MW PV project in a former mining area in Kentucky.
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Bert Thin Films tests copper paste on TOPCon solar cell with 24% conversion efficiency

April 14, 2025
Bert Thin Films has used a copper paste on a tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) M10 solar cell with a conversion efficiency of 24%.
A 3.3MW community solar project in Vermont built by Encore in a brownfield site. Image: Encore Renewable Energy.

The Nature Conservancy to develop 17 solar PV and storage projects on former Appalachian coal mines

February 12, 2025
The projects will be developed by Sun Tribe Development and ENGIE across the US states of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
A Kentucky solar plant.

Savion commissions 111MW Kentucky solar plant on reclaimed coal mine

January 15, 2025
Savion has commissioned its Martin County Solar Project (MCSP) in the US state of Kentucky, its first to be built on a reclaimed coal mine.
Solar panels from a project from developer EDP Renewables

‘Low hanging fruit is gone’ for US solar developers, says EDP CEO

October 23, 2024
Ganapathy said that her company has consciously established solar, storage and wind projects in a “broad mix” of US states
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Kentucky utilities to delay new solar capacity until 2035 despite data centre demand growth

October 21, 2024
Two Kentucky electricity utilities will stall any solar PV capacity additions until 2035 unless solar "becomes more economically competitive".
National Grid Renewables' Noble solar-plus-storage project in Texas.

National Grid Renewables starts construction on 160MW ‘largest’ Kentucky PV project

December 15, 2023
National Grid Renewables began construction this week (14th December) on the ‘largest’ solar PV project in the US state of Kentucky.
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Advocates applaud Kentucky solar and storage approvals but warn against further oil & gas backing

November 20, 2023
Approvals granted earlier this month for utility plans to replace coal in Kentucky with solar PV and battery storage have been broadly welcomed
Image: Andreas Gücklhorn on Unsplash

Kentucky utilities get approval for plan to replace coal plant with 1GW solar, storage by 2027

November 9, 2023
Two utilities in Kentucky, US, have received approval from the Kentucky Public Service Commission (KPSC) to add 1GW of solar PV and energy storage to replace a 600MW coal plant by 2027.
The solar PV project will be built in four phases with phase 1 to start construction in 2025. Image: BrightNight.

BrightNight to develop 800MW solar PV at former coal mine in Kentucky

July 26, 2023
Independent power producer (IPP) BrightNight has partnered with automaker Rivian and environmental nonprofit The Nature Conservancy to develop an 800MW solar PV project on a former coal mine in Kentucky, US.

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