The plan to turn blighted houses into a new source of green power for the grid

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By Emily PontecorvoAug 3, 2022, 10:30 am265 pts
Standing outside the sagging house on 2nd Street in North Richmond, California, it was hard to imagine it as the future site of a pioneering clean energy project. The building’s rotting white siding seemed to sink into the dirt yard with no real foundation. Chunks of it were crumbling to the ground. As we…

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