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Southwestern Virginia has a long history of coal mining, but its energy future is a work in progress. A pilot project is underway to transform former coal

Robbie Harris reports Former coal mines within the Cumberland Forest Project—nearly 253,000 acres of land managed by The Nature Conservancy in Southwest Virginia, Eastern Tennessee, and Eastern Kentucky—could be the site of the first utility-scale solar systems built in the Central Appalachian coalfields Credit The Nature Conservency The Nature Conservancy has been acquiring land to build the solar installations in the Cumberland Forest, a quarter million acres comprising parts of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.  The goal is to prove it’s possible to build solar arrays on land once m...

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 territory. “I’m thrilled … to play a small part in the energy transition in Southwest Virginia. Thi...

Proposal for new solar energy project submitted in Albemarle County Proposal for new solar energy project submitted in Albemarle County By Max Marcilla | February 23, 2021 at 9:37 PM EST - Updated February 23 at 10:50 PM BATESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Albemarle County is taking its first steps toward a new energy source. A permit to build an 8-Megawatt facility for solar energy, with a 4-Megawatt battery energy storage system, has been submitted to the county by Sun Tribe Solar. It’s the beginning of a long process, but the organization says it would bring a new source of energy to the weste...

In a 3-4 vote, the City Council denied the Newport News School Board's request for conditional use permits to install ground-mounted solar arrays at Saunders Elementary School and Hines Middle School.