New Jersey is cementing its role as a
leader in solar energy the Solar Energy
Industries Association reports that in
the United States New Jersey is second
only to California in installed solar
electric capacity but densely populated
states like New Jersey need to be
creative in finding space for large
arrays of solar panels we called solar
farm to consist of a one megawatt solar
plant it’s on a brownfield site p SE and
g the local electric and gas utility is
installing more than four thousand
panels on six acres of unused land in
Hackensack once the site of a gas plant
and then gas storage facilities the
ground was contaminated and labeled a
brownfield we’ve taken this site that
was non usable it was Tama nated it’s a
passive use and it’s gonna produce power
that could supply over 170 homes in the
in the immediate area the Environmental
Protection Agency estimates that nearly
half a million brownfields dot the u.s.
these former mining industrial or
commercial properties tainted with
petroleum metals or other pollutants
become ice ores and cleaning them up for
standard development is both expensive
and time intensive the EPA has
identified some 11,000 brownfields
across the country as prime spots for
renewable energy development I view
brownfields as a tremendous opportunity
and it is an opportunity because it is
located near population centers and in
urban downtown’s and rural downtown
since most brownfields once held
power-hungry industrial commercial or
mining machinery they tend to have power
lines and other infrastructure on-site
or nearby making it cheaper to tie them
into the grid one of the real benefits
of siting a solar farm on a brownfield
site is that you may not need to do
cleanup or extensive cleanup and the
reason is that you can put these
techniques where you contain the
contamination within the property
despite such savings on the land itself
solar forms are expensive PSEG is
spending about a half billion dollars to
install 80 megawatts of solar generation
within the year the state’s electric
ratepayers advocate is opposing a plan
to more than double that expenditure we
think there are tremendous environmental
benefits and we support renewable energy
generally the problem is that it’s very
expensive so that’s why you have to
manage it and you also have to make sure
the industry doesn’t become completely
dependent on repair subsidies at some
point they’re going to have to learn to
walk by themselves PSEG says it is cost
customers only an average of 30 cents a
month to rapidly boost clean energy
generation while reclaiming brownfields
and this closed New Jersey Meadowlands
Commission landfilled
this video was captured earlier in 2012
and while hurricane sandy in November
brought major flooding and wind damage
to nearby communities officials say the
solar array here suffered no significant
damage the Kearny landfill solar farm
brings new meaning to the expression one
man’s trash is another’s treasure if you
look at this site here this is our first
landfill that we did and in our and and
it’s three megawatts in our new filing
we’ve we want to do 90 megawatts of
solar on landfills and brownfields so
really it’s just another significant
step and taking advantage of unused land
as the cost of solar technology comes
down and utilities work to meet state
goals on renewable energy officials
expect to see more brownfields become
bright fields
leader in solar energy the Solar Energy
Industries Association reports that in
the United States New Jersey is second
only to California in installed solar
electric capacity but densely populated
states like New Jersey need to be
creative in finding space for large
arrays of solar panels we called solar
farm to consist of a one megawatt solar
plant it’s on a brownfield site p SE and
g the local electric and gas utility is
installing more than four thousand
panels on six acres of unused land in
Hackensack once the site of a gas plant
and then gas storage facilities the
ground was contaminated and labeled a
brownfield we’ve taken this site that
was non usable it was Tama nated it’s a
passive use and it’s gonna produce power
that could supply over 170 homes in the
in the immediate area the Environmental
Protection Agency estimates that nearly
half a million brownfields dot the u.s.
these former mining industrial or
commercial properties tainted with
petroleum metals or other pollutants
become ice ores and cleaning them up for
standard development is both expensive
and time intensive the EPA has
identified some 11,000 brownfields
across the country as prime spots for
renewable energy development I view
brownfields as a tremendous opportunity
and it is an opportunity because it is
located near population centers and in
urban downtown’s and rural downtown
since most brownfields once held
power-hungry industrial commercial or
mining machinery they tend to have power
lines and other infrastructure on-site
or nearby making it cheaper to tie them
into the grid one of the real benefits
of siting a solar farm on a brownfield
site is that you may not need to do
cleanup or extensive cleanup and the
reason is that you can put these
techniques where you contain the
contamination within the property
despite such savings on the land itself
solar forms are expensive PSEG is
spending about a half billion dollars to
install 80 megawatts of solar generation
within the year the state’s electric
ratepayers advocate is opposing a plan
to more than double that expenditure we
think there are tremendous environmental
benefits and we support renewable energy
generally the problem is that it’s very
expensive so that’s why you have to
manage it and you also have to make sure
the industry doesn’t become completely
dependent on repair subsidies at some
point they’re going to have to learn to
walk by themselves PSEG says it is cost
customers only an average of 30 cents a
month to rapidly boost clean energy
generation while reclaiming brownfields
and this closed New Jersey Meadowlands
Commission landfilled
this video was captured earlier in 2012
and while hurricane sandy in November
brought major flooding and wind damage
to nearby communities officials say the
solar array here suffered no significant
damage the Kearny landfill solar farm
brings new meaning to the expression one
man’s trash is another’s treasure if you
look at this site here this is our first
landfill that we did and in our and and
it’s three megawatts in our new filing
we’ve we want to do 90 megawatts of
solar on landfills and brownfields so
really it’s just another significant
step and taking advantage of unused land
as the cost of solar technology comes
down and utilities work to meet state
goals on renewable energy officials
expect to see more brownfields become
bright fields
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