Nearly 100 attendees joined the Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation, DEP and other presenters at the PA Solar Energy On Abandoned Mine Lands Summit in State College July 19.

Preliminary findings for the anticipated Solar Energy Assessment Report were presented gathered from several regional stakeholder meetings earlier in the year.

The presentations will be made available on the Solar Energy Summit website as soon as they are gathered and converted into downloadable PDFs.

Steve Cornia, EPCAMR GIS Watershed Outreach Specialist, presented on the EPCAMR GIS Site Suitability Solar Model Tool in ArcGIS Pro to showcase how EPCAMR can assist with identifying areas that might be more suitable for solar development based on a number of criteria, weighted ranking, and a few other assumptions based on the best available data that we were able to build into the model.

For more information, visit the PA Solar On Mined Lands website.

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[Posted: July 20, 2023]

7/24/2023