Success Stories
These stories highlight renewable energy installations on current and formerly contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites.
RE-Powering Success Stories: Electricity Generation Grid Connected
These success stories highlight formerly contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites that are generating electricity to sell back to the grid.
- Bethlehem Steel, Lackawanna, NY (pdf)
- Chevron, Casper, WY (pdf)
- Fort Carson, El Paso County, CO (pdf)
- Molycorp, Inc., Questa, NM (pdf)
- Scituate Landfill, Scituate, MA (pdf)
RE-Powering Success Stories: Electricity Generation and Microgrid
This success story highlights a landfill that acts as a microgrid.
RE-Powering Success Stories: Electricity Generation Onsite Use
These success stories highlight formerly contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites that are generating electricity for onsite use.
- Nellis Air Force Base, Frenchman and Yucca Flats, NV (pdf)
- New Rifle Mill Site, Rifle, CO (pdf)
- Tech Town, Dayton, OH (pdf)
- West Contra Costa County Wastewater District, Richmond, CA (pdf)
RE-Powering Success Stories: Community Solar
This success story highlights a landfill that is a community solar/subscription installation.
RE-Powering Success Stories: Powering Remediation
These success stories focus on sites that are using renewable energy for remediation and/or cleanup purposes. These projects can help offset remediation costs associated with cleanup activities.
- Apache Powder, Rio Cochise County, AZ (pdf)
- Frontier Fertilizer, Davis, CA (pdf)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA (pdf)
- Pemaco Superfund Site, Maywood, CA (pdf)
RE-Powering Success Stories: Brownfields Redevelopment
This success story highlights a former brownfield site that integrates renewable energy with an overall reuse plan and support of other uses.
RE-Powering Success Stories: Green Manufacturing
This success story discuss sites on formerly contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites that are manufacturing components for renewable energy, either solar panels, wind turbines, or other components.