Kentucky-coal-museum-installs-solar-panels-to-save-on-electricity-bills
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FRANKFORT, KY (AP) Dont look to the Kentucky Coal Museum to bring coal back.
The museum is installing solar panels on its roof, part of a project aimed at lowering the energy costs of one of the citys largest electric customers. Its also a symbol of the states efforts to move away from coal as its primary energy source as more coal-fired power plants are replaced by natural gas. The state legislature recently lifted its decades-old ban on nuclear power.
Its a little ironic or coincidental that you are putting solar green energy on a coal museum, said Roger Noe, a former state representative who sponsored the legislation that created the coal museum. Coal comes from nature, the sun rays come from nature so it all works out to be a positive thing.
The museum is in Benham, once a coal camp town whose population peaked at about 3,000, according to 85-year-old Mayor Wanda Humphrey. Today, it has about 500 people, and Humphrey says she is the mayor because no one else wants the job.
It takes our entire police force we have one person, we have Ryan to get me in the building and back out, she said.