[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, ENERGY: New Rifle uranium mill, Rifle, CO

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Colorado Uranium Mill Site Transformed into Solar Power Farm

Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management
May 11, 2021

In the heart of western Colorado’s oil and gas fields, the city of Rifle, Colorado, has also become a leader in municipal solar power production. 

Construction will begin in June 2021 on a new 2 MW solar array on a former uranium processing site. The new array will join two existing arrays (totaling 3.7 MW), which were constructed at the site between 2008 and 2010 to power the city’s wastewater treatment plant and other municipal facilities, while also providing energy to residential subscribers.

City officials expect construction on the new solar array will wrap up by September 2021.

“The city of Rifle has made solar energy a priority since 2008, when the city installed the existing solar facility on the site to power the adjacent Rifle Wastewater Facility,” said Patrick Waller, the planning director for the city of Rifle. “We’re glad that we’ve been able to work with the DOE [U.S. Department of Energy Office] and the CDPHE [Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment] to continue to use the site for productive uses, like solar, that benefit the citizens of Rifle.”

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For the entire release, see
https://www.energy.gov/lm/articles/former-colorado-uranium-mill-site-transformed-solar-power-farm

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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