solar power

The country’s largest public power provider is building a large-scale solar field on a closed coal ash site at its Shawnee Fossil Plant site in McCracken County. Tennessee Valley Authority officials say it’s the world’s first.

Some rural healthcare centers in Kentucky and Tennessee could soon be better prepared for power outages.

Only .07% of Kentucky’s net utility generation comes from solar energy — one of the lowest rates of solar energy usage in the country. But in a meeting to discuss the potential of the state’s solar production, lawmakers questioned whether the state is moving too fast on solar.

Kentucky utility regulators have for the first time put a dollar figure to the electricity that rooftop solar customers generate when they put energy back…

The future of renewable energy in Kentucky, and who is going to pay for it, is taking shape at a hearing before Kentucky utility regulators. Kentucky…

Two of the largest coal-fired power plant retirements in the U.S. in 2020 are happening in Kentucky.The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Paradise Unit 3 near…

Lawmakers in coal-loving Kentucky have approved a bill that could make solar panels less lucrative for residential customers beyond 2020.The House of…

The Kentucky Municipal Energy Agency is in the planning stages of building a large solar farm in west Kentucky. The Lyon County project is scheduled to be…

State lawmakers are once again considering a bill that would scale back how much homeowners with solar panels get reimbursed for putting energy back into…

A new, large solar power plant in Kentucky is on a rooftop in Kenton County. L'Oréal USA Plant manager Nicole Frey said the company has installed 4,140…