{"id":72963,"date":"2026-05-02T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/solar-booms-in-industrial-us-midwest-as-energy-crisis-persists\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:55:57","slug":"solar-booms-in-industrial-us-midwest-as-energy-crisis-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/solar-booms-in-industrial-us-midwest-as-energy-crisis-persists\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar booms in industrial US midwest as energy crisis persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity has become one of the most important commodities in the region thanks to demand from datacenters, Iran war and rising utility charges <\/p>\n<p>For decades, the only regular visitors to the Twin Lake Reservoir in Lima, Ohio, were fishers passing hot summer evenings trying to snag a largemouth bass.<\/p>\n<p>But today, it\u2019s a hive of activity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/02\/solar-midwest-energy-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity has become one of the most important commodities in the region thanks to demand from datacenters, Iran war and rising utility charges For decades, the only regular visitors to the Twin Lake Reservoir in Lima, Ohio, were fishers passing hot summer evenings trying to snag a largemouth bass. But today, it\u2019s a hive of &#8230; <a title=\"Solar booms in industrial US midwest as energy crisis persists\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/solar-booms-in-industrial-us-midwest-as-energy-crisis-persists\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Solar booms in industrial US midwest as energy crisis persists\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}