DoomsdaysCW<p>In a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cleveland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cleveland</span></a> suburb, this old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoalPlant</span></a> will soon be replaced by a massive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarFarm</span></a> </p><p>Inside Climate News<br>July 26, 2024</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalFired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoalFired</span></a> power plant that started running more than a century ago is about to get a long-overdue retirement, and its electricity will be replaced by a solar farm and a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BatteryStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BatteryStorage</span></a> system on an existing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/brownfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brownfield</span></a>.</p><p>"The project in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PainesvilleOhio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PainesvilleOhio</span></a>, a suburb of Cleveland, is one of about two dozen clean energy and emissions-reduction initiatives across the country that are sharing $4.3 billion in funding announced on Monday by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BidenAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BidenAdministration</span></a>.</p><p>"It was a happy day for Doug Lewis, Painesville’s city manager. He and his colleagues have been considering how to close the city-owned power plant and replace it with a cleaner alternative. They also have wanted to redevelop the site of a long-shuttered <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chemical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chemical</span></a> factory near the shores of Lake Erie.</p><p>"The federal government will now pay about $80 million to install solar and batteries on the former factory land and to beautify the rest of the brownfield by planting a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/meadow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meadow</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildflowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildflowers</span></a> and constructing a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BikeTrail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikeTrail</span></a>. The trail will provide a connection between Painesville and a regional trail that runs along the lake.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"The solar farm will have capacity of 35 megawatts and the battery storage system will have capacity of 10 megawatts. It will be capable of running for three hours at that level before recharging.</p><p>"The new construction will be on land that once was home to the Diamond Shamrock Corp. chemical plant, which operated there from 1912 to 1977 and occupied about 1,100 acres. The plant’s products included baking soda, chromium compounds, and hydrochloric and sulfuric acids.</p><p>"Since the site closed, the community and the federal government have gone through the slow and trying process of removing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollutants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollutants</span></a> to make it site safe for redevelopment.</p><p>The current project can serve as a case study for many things, including regional cooperation. Painesville, in Lake County, worked with officials in neighboring Cuyahoga County and the Cleveland city government to file an application with the federal government that included <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> projects for all of them."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/in-a-cleveland-suburb-this-old-coal-plant-will-soon-be-replaced-by-a-massive-solar-farm/ar-BB1qJ9eK" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/money/markets/in</span><span class="invisible">-a-cleveland-suburb-this-old-coal-plant-will-soon-be-replaced-by-a-massive-solar-farm/ar-BB1qJ9eK</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarFarms</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LocalEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LocalEnergy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bicycles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bicycles</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BikePaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BikePaths</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenSpace</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reclamation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reclamation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarSundays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarSundays</span></a></p>