solar farms

An NBC10 investigation found that the City of Philadelphia’s 70-megawatt solar farm, first announced in 2019, remains unbuilt. The project has been sold three times with none of the developers putting a shovel in the ground. Meanwhile, a solar farm built since then by SEPTA is proving well worth it for the transit system’s bottom line and clean energy...

A 70-megawatt solar array the City of Philadelphia would build as a renewable energy supply for its buildings is way behind schedule. NBC10 investigative reporter Claudia Vargas found out what is stalling the project and that the delay is costing taxpayers money while halting the city’s renewable energy goals.

Harold Souther may not be an obvious candidate to join the solar power industry. The 98-year-old owner of the 200-year-old Souther Family Farm has worked his land in Livermore Falls, Maine, to produce everything from eggs to canning crops to hay. But he says the decision to turn 20 acres of his land into a solar farm was an easy...

Solar farms are key to the future of green energy, but they come with a problem — how to build solar farms without doing more environmental harm. But fourteen miles of sustainable highway in west Georgia is proving that roadside solar on the interstate system makes good environmental and financial sense. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain reports from Georgia.