Carbon County School District Re-Thinking Solar

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

September 28, 2011 | 10:30 AM

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Carbon County’s Panther Valley School District is tabling a $4 million solar power initiative – for now. The Times News has more:

The sun set Thursday on a $4 million plan to install solar cells at the Panther Valley High School campus. But the proposal may rise again: All seven school directors attending the public meeting voted to table the matter “indefinitely.”
The board vetoed a proposal to approve payment of $5,000 to Reading Electric Renewables, LLC, for the completion of the Commonwealth Financing Authority’s Solar Energy Program grant application, contingent upon the board’s review of the application before submission.

The school had been pushing for a $1 million state grant, to help fund the effort.