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RE-Powering America’s Land. FFLC Call August 28, 2013. RE-Powering America’s Land. Encourages renewable energy development on current and formerly contaminated lands, landfills and mine sites when such development is aligned with the community's vision for the site. WIND. SOLAR. WIND. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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RE-Powering America’s Land
FFLC CallAugust 28, 2013
WIND SOLAR
GEOTHERMAL BIOMASS
SOLARWIND
RE-Powering America’s Land
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Encourages renewable energy development on current and formerly contaminated lands, landfills and mine sites when such development is aligned with the community's vision for the site.
Why Renewables on Potentially Contaminated Lands
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Gain community support
Leverage existinginfrastructure
Improve project economics through
reduced land costs & tax incentives
Protect open space
Build sustainable land development
strategy
Provide low-cost, clean power to communities
Reduce project cycle times with
streamlined zoning and permitting
Types of Contaminated Sites
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- Superfund Sites- Other Federal CERCLA Sites- RCRA Corrective Action Sites- Federal Facilities- Mining Sites- Leaking Underground Storage
Tank Sites- State Voluntary Cleanup Sites- MSW and Industrial Landfills- Brownfields Sites
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Photo Courtesy of Volkswagen America
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RE-Powering America’s LandProjects installed nationwide
Wind turbines installed during remediation at abandoned steel mill
Texas
Concentrators installed on remediated mine tailings
New Mexico
New York
Solar geomembrane capping landfill
Georgia
Wind turbines at former industrial site
Wyoming
Solar array installed on landfill cap
Colorado
Solar array at former manufactured gas plant
Massachusetts
Solar array at former foundry
Illinois
California
Solar array at Superfund site
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Project Tracking
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RE-Powering Installations
# SitesInstalled
Capacity (MW)
NY 6 67.2NJ 10 22.7MA 16 21.4SC 1 20.0WY 2 19.8NV 1 14.2CA 8 12.1IL 2 10.9TN 2 9.7CO 5 5.9RoUS 20 13.0
73 216.9
April 2013
216 MW totalInstalled 73 contaminated land, landfills, and mine sites
RE-Powering MapperGoogle Earth Overlay
Mapped inventory of 66,000+ EPA and select state tracked sites (over 35 million acres of land). Screening based on:
• Resource Availability• Acreage• Infrastructure (distance to transmission lines,
graded roads)
Incorporates data from:• EPA Cleanup and Landfill Programs• National Renewable Energy Lab
• Wind, Solar, and Biomass Resources• Southern Methodist University and USGS
• Geothermal• Department of Homeland Security
• U.S. Highways• Railroads• Transmission Lines• Substations
• State Agencies from CA, HI, NJ, NY, OR, PA, VA, and WV
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 7
RE-Powering MapperGoogle Earth Overlay
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 8
Geothermal Heat Pump Potential
Off-Grid PV Potential
Biopower Potential
90 kW PV installed
RE-Powering MapperEPA Tracked Sites: Site-level information
9U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 9
RE-Powering MapperSites by Program
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Program Sites – Nationally
Sites – Region 1
Abandoned Mine Land 562 9
Brownfield Program Sites 18,870 2,042
Superfund 1,614 101
Landfills - Landfill Methane Outreach Program 2,008 271
RCRA Corrective Action Sites 3,704 112
Sites Associated with Federal Programs 26,758 2,535
State Abandoned Mine Lands -- PA (5,543); WV (2,103) 7,646
State Orphaned Mineral Mine Sites – VA 5,813
State Identified SitesCalifornia (7,622), Hawaii (1,180), New Jersey (10,362), New York (2,181), Oregon (4,743)
26,088
Federal and State Sites 66,217
RE-Powering MapperRenewable Energy Potential - Nationwide
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Renewable Energy Capacity Potential (GW)
Solar PV13,232
CSP438
Wind8,612
Biopower9,966
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1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
Renewable Energy Technology(Number of sites)
Ca
pa
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ote
nti
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GW
) 5.7 TWmax potential across all sites screening for
solar PV, CSP, wind, and/or biopower
Notes: Number of sites and technologies included are those that could be estimated and that screened positively . Sites may screen well for multiple technologies.
> 185,000 renewable energy opportunities across all technologies and scales
1,101 GWpotential using 20% of 6.7 million acres;
1 MW / 6 acres
7.5x US Renewable Energy Capacity
146 GW, including hydro
2011 Renewable Energy Databook, NREL
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 12
Other Tools and Resources
• Handbook for Siting RE Projects While Addressing Environmental Issues
• Best Practices for Siting Solar PV on Landfills
• Solar and Wind Decision Trees
• NREL Feasibility Studies
•Fact Sheets (Financial Considerations, Liability Issues, Success Stories)
•National Maps of Screened Sites
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RE-Powering America’s Land
www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland
Marc Thomas
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
Center for Program Analysis
202-566-0791
General inquiries
