Project Tracking Matrix October 2019
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RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative: October 2019 Tracking Completed Projects on Contaminated Lands, Landfills, and Mine Sites The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognizes the overall RE-Powering America’s environmental benefit of siting renewable energy projects on contaminated Land Initiative properties. EPA’s RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative, tracks renewable energy projects on formerly contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites to educate To provide information on renewable energy on 1 stakeholders and encourage future site development. EPA has identified current contaminated land projects not currently appearing in trends in renewable energy development on contaminated lands including: this document, email [email protected]. • 352 renewable energy installations identified to date • 91% of the installations are solar PV • 64% of the installations are located on former landfills • Massachusetts continues to lead the nation in siting solar on landfills and other sites with roughly one third of all installations in the U.S. To date, the RE-Powering Initiative has identified 352 renewable energy installations on 327 contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites,2 with a cumulative installed capacity of 1,710.2 megawatts (MW). Approximately 72% of these installations are large-scale systems with a project capacity of 1 MW or more. The renewable energy is used to export energy onto the utility grid, offset onsite energy demands, or power cleanup of contaminated sites. This document provides summary statistics and analyses regarding the types of projects (e.g., system sizes, renewable energy technologies, energy uses) that have been completed on contaminated properties to date. At the end of this document, EPA includes a project tracking list with basic information that is publicly reported about each known, completed installation. In addition to the completed sites listed in this document, EPA is actively tracking more than 140 renewable energy projects that are in various stages of planning, approval, or construction on contaminated properties. These include a solar project on a landfill in East Hampton, NY; a 5.3-MW solar installation on a Laytonsville, MD landfill; and a 180-MW solar project on a former open-pit coal mine in Lewis County, WA. Examination of the information in this document may assist in the future planning for development of renewable energy installations. 352 Renewable Energy Projects, Over 1.7 Gigawatt Installed Capacity Technologies Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Wind Multiple Geothermal Biopower Capacity (MW) < 2 2 - 5 5 - 20 20 -35 > 35 Alaska Hawai'i Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands This map is for informational purposes only. The information was gathered from public announcements of renewable energy projects in the form of company press releases, news releases, and, in some cases, conversations with the parties involved. This map may not be a comprehensive representation of all completed renewable energy projects September 2019 on contaminated lands. To provide information on additional projects, please email [email protected]. 1 Using publicly available information, RE-Powering maintains a list of completed renewable energy installations on contaminated sites and landfills (referred to as RE on CL). 2 In this document, installation and project refer to a single renewable energy technology installation, while site and location refer to a single contaminated property. A site or location may have more than one installation or project. For example, the former Dave Johnston Mine (one site) has three separate wind installations. Multiple installation details can be seen in the tracking spreadsheet at the end of this document. Office of Communications, Partnerships, and Analysis 1 Office of Land and Emergency Management RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative: October 2019 Tracking Completed Projects on Contaminated Lands, Landfills, and Mine Sites National Deployment RE-Powering has identified installations of renewable energy on contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites in 41 U.S. states and territories. The location of these installations generally reflect evolving trends linked to incentives or policies such as Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), tax exemptions, net metering laws and others. Renewable resource (e.g., solar incidence) and other technical considerations are important as well. The table below features a “RE-Powering Policy” column. This column identifies states that have enacted policies that specifically support or incentivize renewable energy projects on contaminated lands and brownfields. One example is Massachusetts’ Solar Renewable Energy Certificates program, which assigns higher credits to solar projects sited on brownfields and landfills. Additional states are considering implementing such policies, incentives and other initiatives; for example, Minnesota recently funded a study to explore the potential to deploy solar PV on sites within its Closed Landfill Program.3 41 States and Territories Have Renewable Energy Projects on Contaminated Lands 6 1 1 2 4 11 1 Massachusetts - 114 4 30 5 3 17 Rhode Island - 8 2 6 2 1 8 New Jersey - 42 1 2 6 18 9 Delaware - 3 3 1 2 Maryland - 9 2 5 4 2 2 1 3 4 2 0 1 2 3 - 5 6 - 20 21 - 40 4 1 41 - 114 Alaska Hawai'i Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands This map is for informational purposes only. The information was gathered from public announcements of renewable energy projects in the form of company press releases, news releases, and, in some cases, conversations with the parties involved. This map may not be a comprehensive representation of all completed renewable energy projects September 2019 on contaminated lands. To provide information on additional projects, please email [email protected]. 3 Funding as part of the Environment and Natural Resources Appropriations (Sec. 2, Subd 9 - https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?version=latest&session=ls91&number=SF0007&session_ year=2019&session_number=1&format=pdf) Office of Communications, Partnerships, and Analysis 2 Office of Land and Emergency Management RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative: October 2019 Tracking Completed Projects on Contaminated Lands, Landfills, and Mine Sites RE ON CL INSTALLATIONS BY STATE State Renewable Portfolio State # Installations Installed Capacity (MW) Standard4 RE-Powering Policy5 MA 114 301.1 NJ 42 196.3 NY 30 111.4 CA 18 146.0 CT 17 57.7 VT 11 22.2 MD 9 48.0 CO 9 9.3 RI 8 28.3 OH 8 17.2 PA 6 178.5 IN 6 41.9 6 ME 6 2.0 7 WY 5 295.8 TN 5 12.8 AZ 4 30.0 TX 4 14.6 8 WI 4 3.9 9 MN 4 0.5 VA 3 4.9 10 MI 3 2.4 GA 3 3.2 DE 3 2.7 NV 2 28.2 OR 2 100.1 IL 2 10.9 IA 2 5.5 KY 2 5.0 NM 2 3.0 FL 2 2.3 NC 2 0.6 OK 2 0.0 11 RoUS12 12 24.0 TOTAL 352 1,710.2 4 A renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requires utilities to use or procure a certain percentage of total generation from renewable sources. Policy data in this section are primarily from the Database for State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE), a comprehensive database managed by the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center and originally funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. DSIRE compiles renewable energy and energy efficiency incentives and policies enacted by the federal government, state governments, U.S. territories, local governments, and large utilities. The DSIRE website allows users to search policies by state and provides summary maps. 5 This includes policy related to procurement requirements, financial incentives and state initiatives for development of contaminated lands. 6 Indiana’s Clean Energy Portfolio Standard sets a voluntary goal of 10% clean energy by 2025 for each utility, based on the amount of electricity supplied by the utility in 2010. 7 Maine’s renewable portfolio standard required that, by 2017, 30% of Maine load be satisfied by existing renewable electricity generation and 10% of Maine load be satisfied by new renewable resources.Compliance data for 2017 are not yet available. 8 Texas has already achieved its 2025 RPS goal. 9 Wisconsin’s RPS required 10% of all electric energy consumed in the state to come from renewable energy sources by 2015. The Public Service Commission’s most recent RPS report confirms all utilities were in compliance for 2016. 10 Virginia has a voluntary renewable portfolio goal that provides an enhanced rate of return for renewable generation from approved projects. 11 Oklahoma’s RPS is a goal, not a requirement. The goal called for 15% of the state’s total installed generation capacity to be derived from renewable sources by 2015. In its 2016 report, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission calculated the 2015 total capacity of electricity from renewable energy at 26%. 12 For purposes of this report, RoUS (Rest of US) indicates 9 other states or territories with renewable energy on contaminated lands: Hawaii, North Dakota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Carolina, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Utah. Office of Communications, Partnerships, and Analysis 3 Office of Land and Emergency Management RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative: October 2019 Tracking Completed Projects on Contaminated Lands, Landfills, and Mine Sites Inside the Numbers Based on current trends, 72% of the renewable energy systems identified in the tracking matrix sell power back to the grid as wholesale electricity, while another 22% provides energy via community solar projects or for onsite use. Systems range from utility-scale projects, such as 13 MW of solar PV on a South Brunswick, NJ landfill, to smaller community-scale projects, such as the 0.2-MW community solar installation on a Norwood, CO landfill. RE-Powering capitalizes on the opportunity to address contamination and support renewable energy implementation to achieve the associated economic and environmental benefits. Installations to date demonstrate the viability of projects across all EPA and state remediation programs, from powering industrial facilities at sites subject to RCRA corrective action to offsetting the energy demands at federal facilities with ongoing cleanup activities to repurposing brownfield and Superfund sites.