[CPEO-BIF] Newark Processing Co. site solar, Newark, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Capped aluminum site to be new home of solar installation

Chris Meehan
Clean Energy Authority
April 1, 2011

In a bid to revitalize the city of Newark, Ohio, the city is  
considering installing a photovoltaic array over a blighted  
brownfield. It will issue a request for proposals (RFP) in the coming  
weeks to install solar on up to a 40-acre section of the brownfield  
to power city buildings.

The former Newark Processing Co. aluminum dross extraction plant  
produced aluminum dross waste as a byproduct of the extraction  
process. The company began operations in 1980 at the site and went  
bankrupt in 1996.

The site is currently being capped, thanks to a $2 million Clean Ohio  
Revitalization Fund grant, said Stuart Moynihan, Newark’s economic  
development coordinator. The work on the cap is slated for completion  
by the end of 2011.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.cleanenergyauthority.com/solar-energy-news/newark-ohio-to- 
build-solar-on-brownfield-040111/

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