As part of the RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which manages the Superfund reclamation initiative, and the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, are considering using brownfields and closed landfills to develop renewable energy projects.
The RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative is not exactly new. Conceived in late 2008, and launched in 2010, RE-Powering’s first project (in December of that year) saw the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, collaborating with the EPA on a study which suggested using solar photovoltaics (PV) at the Stringfellow Superfund Site in Riverside, California.
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