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PETERSBURG, Ind. — AES Indiana’s Petersburg Generating Station, which towers over the White River here in southwest Indiana, has been burning coal to generate electricity since the late 1960s.

PETERSBURG, Ind. — AES Indiana’s Petersburg Generating Station, which towers over the White River here in southwest Indiana, has been burning coal to generate electricity since the late 1960s. …

Conversion of old coal plant sites to new storage and renewable projects is happening in a number of states across the country.

Tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest piece of climate legislation in U.S. history, include a bonus 10% credit for “energy communities.”

A Charlottesville-based company’s plan for a solar generation utility-scale facility on property fronting Izaak Walton Road has received the Amherst County Board of Supervisors’ approval.

A Charlottesville company is seeking a special exception permit from Amherst County officials to operate a utility-scale solar generation facility on a 141-acre tract off Izaak Walton Road.

The 4MWdc solar project will expand a soybean farm’s harvest to include clean power...

That pluck has landed his Charlottesville company the opportunity to be the first to generate large-scale renewable power on the coalfields of Central Appalachia. If the bold venture announced this week comes to fruition, roughly 550 acres of deforested minelands sprinkled across an expansive Nature Conservancy preserve will generate up to 75 megawatts of solar energy within two to three years. “If it were easy, everybody would be doing it,” Van Clief said about plunging into untested terri...

Correspondent The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $110 million county budget for FY22 during their regular meeting on Wednesday night (April 14). The real estate tax rate was set at $0.884 per $100, with an equalized rate of $0.865. While lower than the FY21 tax rate of $0.952, most homes have increased in value in the most recent assessment, so the average homeowner will see an increase of 2.19 percent in their annual tax bill. The 110,600,979 budget includes a major investment of ...