Renewable energy company eyes site near Keystone plant - Indiana Gazette
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A Dallas, Texas-based company involved with renewable energy projects is eyeing the neighborhood of the Keystone Generating Station along the Indiana-Armstrong county line for a 1,000-megawatt utility-scale solar project.
According to a handout by E. Jay Fyke, manager of community relations for Vesper Energy, a plant would be built on privately owned leased land over a 400-acre area that extends into South Bend and Plumcreek townships in Armstrong County and Armstrong Township in Indiana County, between the boroughs of Shelocta, Indiana County, and Elderton, Armstrong County.
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Renewable energy sources — once the fuel of the future, then practical in specific, narrow applications — are increasingly economic mainstream sources of power generation. Hydropower was long the mainstay of U.S. renewable electricity generation, although wind power surpassed hydro for the first time in 2019, and solar continues its rapid growth. The continued growth of wind and solar, with their fluctuations, is tied in part to improvements in storage technology: batteries.