[CPEO-BIF] Solar Brownfields

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I am concerned that solar generation plants will provide landowners 
with an excuse not to do necessary cleanup. While centralized solar 
thermal facilities generally require dedicated land surface, 
photovoltaic systems work as well or better when located on rooftops or 
parking-lot canopies, as opposed to the land surface. - Lenny]


US targets brownfield sites for solar makeover

Projects in California and Ohio highlight growing use of disused urban 
sites for solar installations

Cath Everett
BusinessGreen
July 28, 2009

The US is to explore the possibility of recycling its old brownfield 
sites as prime locations for new solar power generating facilities.

Riverside and San Bernadino counties, which are located between Los 
Angeles and San Diego in California, are currently in talks with solar 
power companies about redeveloping both closed and capped landfill sites 
as well as land currently housing derelict public buildings.

The move follows the submission of bids by the providers in April, but 
has been accelerated by the US Department of the Interior's announcement 
last month that it was looking for large tracts of land to site 24 
solar-energy study zones.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246836/targets-brownfield-sites-solar

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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