Solar panels aren’t always a nightmare. Sometimes they work out even better than expected.

That’s what the Meeteetse Museum is finding out with its own rooftop solar, which became active in early June and has already saved the museum in the tiny Park County, Wyoming, town hundreds of dollars.

The solar panel was among projects the museum had been treading water on when the Trump administration decided to claw back humanities money on already-approved grants in April.

Wyoming’s small museums are a healthy part of the state’s tourism landscape in many small towns like Meeteetse. Many of them were caught up in the federal dragnet , and there was much confusion at the time about what would and wouldn’t be funded.

Meeteetse Museum Director Angela Deselms said the museum’s contract for th

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