Keynote Case Study: Deploying Solar on Retired Coal Plants at Scale

Synopsis

Deploying utility-scale projects on retired coal plants provides an opportunity for solar developers to side-step interconnection queues, leverage adders available through the Inflation Reduction Act and most importantly, democratize the benefits of solar to communities.

Whether it’s creating economic opportunity for displaced coalminers in Appalachia and other energy communities in the Nation’s tribes and pueblos or bringing the benefits of community solar to low and moderate income ratepayers, Edelen Renewables has done it all.

This keynote case studies provides insights into the only “coal-to-solar” project in the United States and features solar projects the award-winning documentary “The Human Element” and explores what is needed to deploy solar on retired coal plants at scale.