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Reports and Fact Sheets
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The following reports and fact sheets describe the purpose of the RE-Powering initiative and provide an overview of its analyses.
EPA Headquarters, EPA’s Region 9 Office, and the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) have developed draft decision trees to screen potentially contaminated and underutilized sites for solar and wind potential.
Solar Decision Tree (PDF) (18 pp, 820K)
Wind Decision Tree (PDF) (18 pp, 857K)While the decision tree focuses on potentially contaminated sites, this tool also provides information on rooftop and other applications in order to support complimentary evaluations. These decision trees can be used to screen individual sites for their solar or wind potential or for a community-scale evaluation of multiple sites. These trees are not intended to replace or substitute the need for a detailed site-specific assessment that would follow an initial screening based on criteria contained in the tree. Tips on how users can obtain information relevant to various parameters in the tree are provided. EPA is looking for your feedback on the decision trees. By 2/16/12, please send comments via email to Shea Jones (jones.shea@epa.gov).
Transmittal Memorandum from EPA’s Assistant Administrator of the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) (PDF) (2 pp, 294KB)
Transmits the fact sheet entitled, "Siting Renewable Energy Projects While Addressing Environmental Issues." It encourages project managers to consider renewable production on their sites as a redevelopment option.Fact Sheet: Siting Renewable Energy Projects While Addressing Environmental Issues (PDF) (4 pp, 484KB)
Describes site-specific scenarios where renewable energy development may occur while cleanup is ongoing and examples of real sites which illustrate some of these scenarios.RE-Powering Fact Sheet (PDF) (2 pp, 1.3MB)
Describes the characteristics of contaminated land and mine sites that make them attractive locations for renewable energy projects and describes EPA’s efforts to support this type of development.RE-Powering Mapping Tool (PDF) (1 pg, 1.4MB)
Describes the RE-Powering mapping tools.RE-Powering Technology Fact Sheets
Provides an overview of the technologies EPA analyzed.- Wind Technologies (PDF) (1 pg, 466K)
- Solar Technologies (PDF) (2 pp, 1.2MB)
- Biomass Technologies (PDF) (2 pp, 752K)
- Geothermal Technologies (PDF) (1 pg, 415K)
Anywhere the Sun Shines: Developing Solar Energy on Contaminated Land (PDF) (2 pp, 852K)
Describes how changing policies and market factors are enabling the development of utility scale solar power facilities in areas with low and moderate solar resources.RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative Management Plan (PDF) (10 pp, 138K)
The draft plan describes activities EPA can take to build upon the progress that the initiative has achieved since its launch in September of 2008. During the fall and winter of 2009, EPA met with stakeholders from state and local government, the renewable energy sector, finance, utilities, land owners, parties responsible for cleaning up sites, community organizations and nonprofits to hear feedback on barriers to using contaminated sites for renewable energy and how to overcome those barriers. EPA used the information provided at the stakeholder meetings to develop the draft management plan. Submit comments on the draft management plan to Lura Matthews (Matthews.Lura@epamail.epa.gov).