[CPEO-BIF] Two solar brownfield examples

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Solar projects could sprout at old Riverside County landfills


By JANET ZIMMERMAN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
July 27, 2009

Large-scale solar energy projects could be built on 1,800 acres of 
closed landfills and vacant property owned by Riverside County.

The potential solar sites are in Highgrove, Beaumont, Corona, Mira Loma, 
Idyllwild, Coachella, Mecca, Desert Hot Springs and Anza; and at Double 
Butte landfill south of Winchester, Bundy Canyon landfill on Highway 74 
between Beaumont and San Jacinto, and Mead Valley landfill in Perris. 
The county also is offering land near the Chiriaco Summit Airport, 
between Coachella Valley and Desert Center, according to documents from 
the county Economic Development Agency.

"Most of these are isolated facilities. ... You can't use (the land) for 
much else," said county Supervisor Marion Ashley, whose district 
includes some of the affected properties.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_solar27.3ec539a.html

AND

South Side Solar Plant Closer to Reality

Produced by Gabriel Spitzer
Chicago Public Radio
July 29, 2009



A Chicago-based utility has moved closer to building the nation's 
largest urban solar power plant It would go on the city's South Side - 
but a big question mark remains.

The Exelon plant would consist of more than 30,000 solar panels on a 
site in Chicago's West Pullman neighborhood. Exelon says it would 
generate enough electricity to power about 1,200 homes. Yesterday, the 
city council approved a lease for the vacant industrial site, which is 
considered a brownfield.

Alderman Carrie Austin says the project in her ward would create about 
200 temporary jobs, but maybe only ten permanent ones. Still, she says, 
it makes a difference.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=35853


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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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