A coal museum in Kentucky looks to an unlikely power source: solar energy
 

A coal museum in Kentucky looks to an unlikely power source: solar energy
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The tiny town of Benham, Kentucky, was originally built to serve the coal mining industry. **w it's embracing solar energy.*

Benham, population 500, will soon get an array of solar panels atop the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum. The decision to go solar is packed with symbolism, but mostly it just made financial sense, the museum's owners said.

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The solar panels could cut the museum's energy costs by between $8,000 and $10,000 a year, Brandon Robinson, a spokesman for Southeast Community and Technical College, which owns the museum, told reporters last week. Read more...

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