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OPG established Nanticoke Solar LP as a joint venture with First Nations to build and operate a new solar facility on the site. The Nanticoke Solar Facility is Ontario Power Generation's first solar facility. Contracts were let in 2016 and construction began in 2018. The 192,000-panel solar farm was
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completed in March 2019 but demolition of the old Nanticoke GS structures continued even after construction was completed. The last sections of the former Nanticoke GS were demolished on August 22, 2019.
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in 1924. Following the phase-out of coal power in the province, Ontario Power Generation announced in July 2015 that it would not be converting the facility to
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and that remaining equipment would be sold or repurposed elsewhere. The two smokestacks were imploded using controlled demolition on February 28, 2018.
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volunteer militia routed a band of American marauders who had been pillaging area farms and terrorizing the country in 1813. The site was designated a
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The Nanticoke Solar Facility and its predecessor, the Nanticoke Generating Station, is built on the site of the "Battle of Nanticoke" where the
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The facility is owned and operated by Nanticoke Solar LP, a
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Nanticoke
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Nanticoke Generating Station
coal-fired power plant
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Nanticoke Generating Station
Norfolk
National Historic Site of Canada
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List of power stations in Canada
Science and technology in Canada
"Former coal-fired power plant in Ontario becomes solar facility"
"2020 Annual Report"

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