From brownfield to greenfield: Ex-mine hosts Vermont’s biggest solar array

A group takes in the site of a new solar array during a ribbon cutting ceremony Sept. 22 at Elizabeth Mine in Strafford. The solar array takes up 27 acres and will harness enough energy to power 1,250 homes. Photo by Charles Hatcher/Valley News
(This story by John Lippman was first published in the Valley News.)
SOUTH STRAFFORD — Appropriately enough, the midday sun was shining on a recent Friday in South Strafford, where a few dozen people had gathered at the periphery of the bowl-shaped