Solar Advocates Target Nevada Mines

Clean Technica: A trifecta of solar advocates are targeting Nevada’s closed mines for new solar projects or other renewables to help the state meet its new 50% renewable energy portfolio standard by 2030. The Rocky Mountain Institute, the Nature Conservancy, and the Nevada Mining Association are cooperating both to get solar projects developed on the mine sites and to encourage new legislation that will facilitate the brown field development.

“We did a high level analysis of Nevada and came up with almost 3 million acres of closed mine sites; you can put a ton of solar, wind or geothermal on that,” says Paolo Natali, the director of Rocky Mountain Institute’s Sunshine for Mines program.

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