Turning dirty to clean: Amazon to buy power from solar array on former US coal mine site

The 170MW Maryland array is firm's first on land abandoned due to toxic pollution from industrial use

Amazon will buy solar energy from a project Competitive Power Ventures is developing on this former coal mine site in Maryland.
Amazon will buy solar energy from a project Competitive Power Ventures is developing on this former coal mine site in Maryland.Foto: Maryland Department of the Environment
Published 21 November 2023, 18:11Updated 21 November 2023, 18:11
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