[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, ENERGY: Philadelphia (PA) Navy Yard solar array

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Please excuse duplicate postings. - LS]

Brown to Green: A New Use For Blighted Industrial Sites

Few places in the U.S. are as well suited to developing renewable  
energy as the contaminated sites known as “brownfields.” But as  
communities from Philadelphia to California are discovering,  
government support is critical to enable solar and wind entrepreneurs  
to make use of these abandoned lands.

by Dave Levitan
Yale Environment 360
June 24, 2011

The Philadelphia Navy Yard sprawls over 1,200 acres on the banks of  
the Delaware River, a once-great shipyard now being transformed into  
a mix of research facilities, corporate offices, and manufacturing  
plants. In one remote, seven-acre corner - a nondescript plot of land  
with a highway bridge towering above it - the Navy Yard's industrial  
past is palpable. Reeds and an occasional tree sprout among  
dilapidated buildings of corrugated iron. Crumbling cinder blocks are  
piled in a corner.

This forgotten corner of the city once served as a landfill and  
incinerator for the Navy Yard. Shipbuilding and other industrial  
activities, dating back to 1801, contaminated the site with heavy  
metals, among other things. Since the Navy built its last ship here  
in 1970, the area has sat largely unused.

But no longer: Soon these seven acres will be home to the largest  
solar photovoltaic installation in Philadelphia. Construction is  
scheduled to start this summer on the 1.3-megawatt, $5.6 million Navy  
Yard solar array, with a target completion date of early 2012. The  
facility will be capable of powering about 300 homes, and will create  
50 construction jobs and 10 permanent jobs, according to developers.

...

For the entire article, see
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/ 
brown_to_green_a_new_use_for_blighted_industrial_sites/2419/


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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
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