China Building Second Enormous Floating Solar Farm on Top of Defunct Coal Mine

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By Lorraine ChowDec 12, 2017, 11:39 am81 pts
An old coal mine is being reborn as an enormous renewable energy plant. The state-run energy company China Three Gorges New Energy Co . is building a 150-megawatt floating solar farm that sits on top of a lake that formed from a collapsed coal mine in the eastern Chinese city of Huainan, Bloomberg reported.…

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