[CPEO-BIF] Solar at former Providence Steel and Iron Co., Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Steel and Solar to Soon Mix at Renovated Brownfield

By TIM FAULKNER
ecoRI News 
September 20, 2019

PROVIDENCE — The Steel Yard continues to innovate. But instead of working with metals, molding ceramics, or making jewelry, the medium for the yard’s latest project is renewable energy.

The industrial arts center in the city’s gritty Valley neighborhood is making an exhibit of a solar array as part of a new renovation. The 50-megawatt solar canopy will be built into the steel frame of an existing outdoor gantry, an overhead trellis of steel beams once used to move heavy equipment.

The solar project will join existing exhibits in the courtyard, which serve as a symbol of ingenuity and rebirth at the former Providence Steel and Iron Co. Much of the 3.8-acre campus was contaminated by lead-based paint used since the early 20th century to coat steel girders. The cleanup began in 2007 and ended in 2010, after the most polluted soil was removed and the remainder capped with clean fill and permeable pavement.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.ecori.org/renewable-energy/2019/9/20/steel-yard-goes-solar

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
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