2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:04:43 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Rochester, New York, celebrates new solar field built on former landfill"
 
Rochester, New York, celebrates new solar field built on former landfill
Project is an example of the successful reuse of a brownfield site for the production of renewable energy.


Waste Today Staff
Construction & Demolition Recycling
October 26, 2017

Rochester, New York, Mayor Lovely A. Warren celebrated the completion of the city’s new solar field, Oct. 25, 2017, which will help power City Hall and divert more than 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. 

Located at the former Emerson Street Landfill, the new solar field holds more than 7,800 solar panels that will generate approximately 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually. The field was built and will be owned and operated by AES Distributed Energy of Boulder, Colo., which is working with Solar Liberty of Buffalo as its subcontractor. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority provided financial support to the project.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.cdrecycler.com/article/rochester-new-york-celebrates-solar-field/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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