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A plan to build a 40 megawatt solar farm in east Fayette County is seeing pushback from both the city of Lexington and land-use advocates with the Fayette Alliance.
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The Family Forest Carbon Program would help owners of forests as small as 30 acres enter carbon markets. It helps those forest owners implement green initiatives on their land, and pays them based on how much carbon is removed from the local atmosphere.
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Two new solar farms in Fayette County and Marion County are being planned for construction by the East Kentucky Power Cooperative.
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It’s being used to research the effectiveness of wind energy in the Commonwealth. The utility finished construction at the end of February, and tested it through March.
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The Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project is one of five clean energy projects across the U.S. that were announced to get funding, all on current or former mine land.
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Around 75 volunteers are planting 7,000 trees across a 10-acre piece of land.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last month that it would consider federal protections for a rare Appalachian reptile called the yellow-spotted woodland salamander. It comes as regional biologists have been advocating for it.
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A proposal from hydropower company Rye Development could see the site of a former coal mine in Bell County repurposed as a pumped energy storage facility.
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The hearing comes after weeks of public comment hearings around eastern Kentucky. Kentucky Power’s request to the Public Service Commission was originally submitted last May.
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A settlement between Kentucky Power and consumer advocate groups has been reached as part of a case in front of the Public Service Commission that looks to increase energy costs for around 163,000 residents in 20 eastern Kentucky counties.