The renewable energy firm Reactivate will build solar power plants on 50 landfills owned by the nation's largest waste management firm, WM (cropped, via prnewswire).
US energy policy took a sharp turn against renewable energy beginning on January 20, 2025. Almost exactly one year later, signs that the policy has failed have already emerged. In the power generation sector, wind and solar (especially solar) have continued to dominate new capacity additions by a wide margin. … [continued]
The Foul Rift project is one of several recent brownfield and landfill solar projects CEP Renewables has completed in support of the New Jersey Governor’s goal to achieve 100 percent clean energy by 2050. RED BANK, N.J. — CEP Renewables, NJR Clean Energy Ventures and CS Energy announced that they … [continued]
What do we do with a big old plot of land that’s been bombed to smithereens with nuclear bombs? Build a school there? Plop a new luxury home development with a fancy pool and spa on it? Probably not. In fact, it’s quite hard to figure out what to do … [continued]
New federal incentives can help communities repurpose brownfields into brightfields, high-value sites that support a more equitable, clean energy economy. To speed this transition across America, RMI is co-launching the first ever Brightfields Accelerator. The industrial revolution fundamentally reshaped America’s economy but left behind a legacy of brownfields — land that is … [continued]
The Nature Conservancy, with its 65 years of substantial work protecting the environment through conservation, is making its way deeper into coal country — with a plan. The organization wants to help develop solar on up to 13,000 acres of cleared coal mine lands.
A common challenge that mining companies face, with legacy sites is what to do with the disturbed land once the resource has been exhausted or extraction is no longer profitable.
By Tam Hunt, owner of Community Renewable Solutions LLC The solar market is booming in the US. We recently surpassed ten gigawatts of installed capacity, just a year after we surpassed five gigawatts. The future is equally bright. With this boom in solar we’re seeing new ways for investors to become involved in this … [continued]
JinkoSolar is going to provide the solar cells for a new 5.75 megawatt solar array that will be built on the site of a former landfill in Canton, Massachusetts. The site had been derelict for more than 20 years, and struggling towns and cities across the U.S. might want to … [continued]
