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TVA pilot project in western Ky. to put solar farm on coal ash landfill

The Tennessee Valley Authority is planning to build a utility-scale solar farm on top of a coal ash landfill in far western Kentucky.

The $216 million pilot initiative at the Shawnee Fossil coal-fired power plant in West Paducah would produce 100 megawatts of power on a 309-acre solar farm. Solar advocates say that’s enough electricity to power roughly 10,000 homes.

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