Re: [CPEO-BIF] Solar Brownfields

["Trilling, Barry" <BTrilling@wiggin.com>]

Lenny: I don't understand why you suspect that otherwise applicable remediation standards will be lowered for the development of solar installations.  Can you please elaborate?

 

 

Barry

 

Barry J. Trilling

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-----Original Message-----
From: brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org [mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Lenny Siegel
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:06 PM
To: Brownfields Internet Forum
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Solar Brownfields

 

[I am concerned that solar generation plants will provide landowners

with an excuse not to do necessary cleanup. While centralized solar

thermal facilities generally require dedicated land surface,

photovoltaic systems work as well or better when located on rooftops or

parking-lot canopies, as opposed to the land surface. - Lenny]

 

 

US targets brownfield sites for solar makeover

 

Projects in California and Ohio highlight growing use of disused urban

sites for solar installations

 

Cath Everett

BusinessGreen

July 28, 2009

 

The US is to explore the possibility of recycling its old brownfield

sites as prime locations for new solar power generating facilities.

 

Riverside and San Bernadino counties, which are located between Los

Angeles and San Diego in California, are currently in talks with solar

power companies about redeveloping both closed and capped landfill sites

as well as land currently housing derelict public buildings.

 

The move follows the submission of bids by the providers in April, but

has been accelerated by the US Department of the Interior's announcement

last month that it was looking for large tracts of land to site 24

solar-energy study zones.

 

 

...

 

For the entire article, see

http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2246836/targets-brownfield-sites-solar

 

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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>

http://www.cpeo.org

 

 

 

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