[CPEO-BIF] New York City's Solar Landfill Pla

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New York City's Solar Landfill Plan Finds Eager Energy Developers
Developers say they want in on New York's solar landfill project, but  
agree that Massachusetts and New Jersey have more enticing policy  
incentives

By Maria Gallucci
SolveClimate News
April 28, 2011


New York City's garbage never looked so good.
Solar firms are already lining up for a piece of the city's  
landfills, after Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced last week that  
some 250 acres would be opened for sun-powered installations.

The move gives New York a chance to shine in the emerging solar  
space, and to compete with neighbor-states Massachusetts and New  
Jersey, where utility-scale projects on brownfields - abandoned  
industrial sites and landfills - are increasingly popping up.

Bloomberg said that the city would partner with private developers to  
build up to 50 megawatts of solar power atop capped landfills in  
Staten Island and Brooklyn.


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For the entire article, see
http://solveclimatenews.com/news/20110428/new-york-city-solar- 
landfill-plan-energy-developers-massachusetts-new-jersey

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