🌍✨ Why Illinois has struggled to turn old coal sites into solar farms
Why we’re watching: Illinois had big plans to turn a bunch of old coal plant sites into solar and battery farms.
But the program has turned out to be kind of a bust. 💚
The state created its Coal to Solar and Energy Storage Initiative five years ago, hoping it would speed clean energy deployment by making use of the grid infrastructure…
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- 📌 Key signal: Illinois had big plans to turn a bunch of old coal plant sites into solar and battery farms. But the program has…
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Reporting curated for GreenTV. Original reporting via Canary Media.