Coal Mining Museum Solar Panels

An unlikely building is switching to solar powered energy.

Coal mining museum solar panels. The museum is installing solar panels on its roof part of a project aimed at lowering the energy costs of one of the city s largest electric customers. The museum in benham began installing the solar panels on tuesday wymt reported. Brandon robinson the museum s. The museum which opened in 1994 with the help of some state funding houses relics from the state s coal mining past including items from the personal collection of coal miner s daughter.

It s also a symbol of the state s efforts to. The move generated surprised headlines across the country. The museum in benham owned by the southeast kentucky community and technical college has decided to go green to save a little money. Coal museum switches to solar to save money.

A kentucky museum devoted to the history of coal is abandoning its namesake for a simple reason. Four years later his campaign got its biggest win when the kentucky coal mining museum a 36 000 square foot shrine to the business that built benham installed about 80 solar panels on its roof in hopes of saving money on energy. The kentucky coal mining museum in benham is owned by southeast kentucky community and technical college. The kentucky coal mining museum is home to a 1940s steam locomotive early mining tools artifacts donated by country icon loretta lynn and as of this week a solar panel array.