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    Nov 01, 2022 4 minutes

    State readying mine property for 62,000 panels

    BY GWENDOLYN CRAIG

    The Adirondacks is close to hosting the state’s first “build ready” solar project, about 62,000 panels generating 20 megawatts of energy to the grid. Planned atop a tailings pile of an old mine in the Town of Clifton, the panels could power about 4,500 homes, state energy officials envision.

    The Adirondack Park Agency passed the project unanimously in September, the second time the body OK’d a project in that range. Numerous smaller solar developments of smaller solar developments are in various stages of planning on private park lands.

    The Clifton project is 111.5 acres of solar panels enclosed within a chain-link fence on the tailings pile of the former

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