[CPEO-BIF] Brownfield renewables

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

If You Have Lemons...
Polluted brownfields offer an attractive option for renewable-energy 
projects in need of inexpensive property

By SARI KRIEGER
Wall Street Journal
May 10, 2010

Neil Shea loves polluted land.

Mr. Shea, director of business development for solar panel maker Solon 
SE, says his company wants to make solar power more affordable, and 
today, land prices can be up to 50% of the cost of a solar project. 
Therefore, he looks for cheap land in polluted, former industrial 
properties, otherwise known as brownfields.

Brownfields have become an attractive option for renewable-energy 
projects like solar and wind. Among about 15 million acres of polluted 
land in the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency has identified 
11,000 sites as ripe for renewables. These include brownfields, 
abandoned mines, federal facilities and Superfund sites, which are 
properties the government has designated as some of the most 
contaminated in the U.S.

...

For the entire article, see
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303828304575180132815079418-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwMDExNDAyWj.html
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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
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