One Kentucky coal company is transforming two old mining sites into a massive solar farm in an effort to revive Appalachia. Tyler Lizenby/CNET Crammed into a narrow river valley in the Appalachian ...

Electric utility FirstEnergy Corp., which serves most of northern West Virginia, is going to repurpose a former coal ash landfill for a utility-scale solar farm. The Natural Resources Defense Council ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A former strip mine would be converted into a solar farm under a proposal announced Tuesday by an Appalachian coal company that says it wants to place hundreds of thousands of ...

From the top of a wind turbine nearly 100 meters (330 feet) above the ground, Grzegorz Witek, a coal miner, gazes at the ...

For more than half a century, a coal plant in the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts spewed pollution into the air. Now, the plant is closed, and 17,000 solar panels and a battery storage system–the ...

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FILE - Coal is shown inside one of the train cars headed for the dumping area of the Shawnee Fossil Plant in western McCracken County, Ky. The nation's largest public utility has proposed building a ...

Keyser in West Virginia represents a national shift in American energy production. And in a town that was defined by coal for generations, change... This is what happens when a wind farm comes to a ...

West Virginia is getting a 115 MW wind farm, which will increase the state’s wind power by 15%. Here’s why that’s a really big deal – and why West Virginia’s governor, Jim Justice, is so excited.