October 24, 2024--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--A pumped-storage hydropower plant planned for the site of a former coal mine in Kentucky came a step closer to reality as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) earlier this week announced that the project would receive $12 million, part of up to $81 million of the total project federal cost share. The project joins other renewable power plants planned at former coal mines or coal ash ponds in Kentucky. The Lewis Ridge pumped-storage project is planned to be installed at a former coal mine in Bell County, Kentucky.