Presentation Description: It is becoming increasingly difficult for developers to find suitable sites for greenfield development that don’t involve environmental, aesthetic, interconnection, or community acceptance constraints. As a result, solar developers are increasingly looking to alternative sites for solar facility development including landfills, brownfield sites, and closed mine sites. These sites represent an untapped opportunity for sustainable energy development on undervalued property near population centers. Communities see opportunity and support brownfield redevelopment as a means to improve their tax base, protect open space, and utilize previously disturbed land for the community benefit.
This session will identify some of the most common constraints and considerations when siting a solar project on landfills, brownfields, and closed mine sites; provide examples of ways to mitigate those constraints; and summarize financial incentives for development on these underutilized sites.
