Solar booms in industrial US midwest as energy crisis persists
Key takeaways
- Engineers and construction workers work on a floating solar project at Twin Lake Reservoir in Lima, Ohio.
- Prefer the Guardian on GoogleFor decades, the only regular visitors to the Twin Lake Reservoir in Lima, Ohio, were fishers passing hot summer evenings trying to snag a largemouth bass.
- A team of 12 engineers and construction workers are busily connecting more than 3,400 solar arrays to small, floating docks and distributing them across four acres of the reservoir’s surface water.
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Engineers and construction workers work on a floating solar project at Twin Lake Reservoir in Lima, Ohio. Photograph: Stephen Starr View image in fullscreen Engineers and construction workers work on a floating solar project at Twin Lake Reservoir in Lima, Ohio. Photograph: Stephen Starr Ohio Solar booms in industrial US midwest as energy crisis persists Electricity has become one of the most important commodities in the region thanks to demand from datacenters, Iran war and rising utility charges
Prefer the Guardian on GoogleFor decades, the only regular visitors to the Twin Lake Reservoir in Lima, Ohio, were fishers passing hot summer evenings trying to snag a largemouth bass.
A team of 12 engineers and construction workers are busily connecting more than 3,400 solar arrays to small, floating docks and distributing them across four acres of the reservoir’s surface water.