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Largest US solar farm on Superfund site now online

By Rick Callahan
Published April 18, 2014 5:17pm ET
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Largest US solar farm on Superfund site now online
Sunlight streams onto the Maywood Solar Farm in Indianapolis on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. The 8-megawatt solar farm completed last month is the nation's largest solar farm on a federal Superfund site. The 43-acre farm sits on a portion of a 120-acre Superfund site tainted by decades of coal-tar refining and wood-treatment operations. The farm's solar panels feed power into Indianapolis Power & Light's electrical grid. (AP Photo/Rick Callahan) | Rick Callahan

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The nation’s largest solar farm built atop a federal Superfund site is now generating power on a tract of land in Indianapolis tainted by a long-shuttered plant’s wood-treating operations.

The 43-acre Maywood Solar Farm went online last month, with more than 36,000 solar panels feeding 8 megawatts of electricity into Indianapolis Power & Light’s power grid.

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