[CPEO-BIF] O'ahu, Hawai'i Brightfield

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
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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