An abandoned Michigan mine is slated to become a solar farm. It's just the first.
4:55 The former mine, now managed by Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources, has been vacant for years. Most recently state police used the area, known as 7 Mile Pit, as a shooting range. Now, Roberts is trying to develop the site into a solar farm that could power a few thousand homes, at the very least, he said. “Hopefully we can do much better than that.” He’s the founder of a renewable energy company called Circle Power, and officially started working on the project this fall. It’s part of a growing effort to build up the state’s solar capacity. That’s as efficiency gain...
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