[CPEO-BIF] Solar brownfield to power Toledo, Ohio zoo

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Solar array to supply power to Toledo Zoo
Brownfield site will again be productive

by Tom Henry
Toledo Blade (OH)
July 22, 2014

A massive, 2.1-megawatt solar array that has put 22 acres of vacant  
South Toledo land back into production is to be dedicated today. It’s  
the kind of comeback that supporters believe will become less common  
across Ohio because of a recent bill Gov. John Kasich signed into law  
discouraging investments in renewable power.

The ceremony for the Rudolph/ Libbe project near the Toledo Zoo is  
expected to draw a contingent of area business and government leaders  
interested in seeing how land contaminated by past industrial  
practices, known as brownfield sites, can go back on the tax rolls  
and generate clean energy while reducing blight.

In this case, a group of local investors led by Rudolph/ Libbe Cos. -  
a limited liability company called Anthony Wayne Solar Number 1 - is  
doing that for one of the region’s largest employers and one of its  
most popular destinations, the Toledo Zoo.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.toledoblade.com/Technology/2014/07/22/Solar-array-to- 
supply-power-to-Toledo-Zoo.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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