2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:28:20 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] O'ahu, Hawai'i Brightfield
 
Solar Turning Oahu Brownfield To Brightfield

By Lauren Craig
EarthTechling
August 18, 2011

A former industrial disposal site on Oahu, Hawaii, may soon become home to a solar-power plant. The Hawaiian Electric Company has signed an agreement with Forest City Hawaii to purchase power generated by a 1-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic system at the Kapolei Sustainable Energy Park in Kapolei. The project is expected to be up and running by the end of the year, pending approval by the Hawaiian Public Utilities Commission.

The plant, which will be designed and installed by Hoku Solar, will use more than 4,200 solar panels mounted on a custom-made concrete racking system situated atop the sealed 12-acre brownfield site near the James Campbell Industrial Park. Industrial waste dumping at the site was halted in 1986 under order from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The site was then sealed under a plastic liner and asphalt, and deemed unusable for most forms of development. However, the state’s limited size and need for domestic energy sources prompted the James Campbell Company to propose reclaiming the site as a "brightfield" (a clever name for solar power plant built on a brownfield site).


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For the entire article, see
http://www.earthtechling.com/2011/08/solar-turning-oahu-brownfield-to- brightfield/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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