Ian Webster was one of two outside speakers at a July 25, 2013 EPA Region V Information Session for RCRA and CERCLA Project Managers on “Renewable Energy on Contaminated Land.” Dr. Webster’s presentation focused on the technical and administrative opportunities and challenges associated with developing MW scale PV power installations on closed landfill sites. The session was held at EPA’s Chicago offices. Dr. Webster’s slide decks for his US EPA Region V presentations on developing MW scale PV projects on closed landfills or Brownfield sites can be downloaded here.
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PVNavigator contributed to the U.S. EPA’s and NREL’s recently-released (February 2013) document titled “Best Practices for Siting Solar Photovoltaics on Municipal Solid Waste Landfills.”
PVNavigator contributed to the U.S. EPA’s and NREL’s recently-released (February 2013) document titled ” Best Practices for Siting Solar Photovoltaics on Municipal Solid Waste Landfills.” The document was created to provide assistance in addressing common technical challenges and identifying the benefits for siting PV on MSW landfills. PVNavigator’s graphics can be found on pages 9 and 37 of the PDF document.
PNL Contributes Ideas and Advice for EPA Document, “Best Practices for Siting Solar Photovoltaics on Municipal Solid Waste Landfill”
U.S. EPA has posted a draft version of their long awaited document titled “Best Practices for Siting Solar Photovoltaics on Municipal Solid Waste Landfills,” to their website at http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/. The document, coauthored with DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is extensive and detailed at 77 pages. PVN, a unit of PNL, is proud to have contributed ideas and advice during the formulation of the document, and is happy to see some our work product displayed.