RE-POWERING AMERICA’S LAND INITIATIVE: PROJECT TRACKING MATRIX OCTOBER 2020 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognizes the overall environmental benefit of siting renewable energy projects on contaminated properties. EPA’s 417 RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative, tracks renewable energy projects on WITH OVER 1.8 GIGAWATT INSTALLED CAPACITY formerly contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites to educate stakeholders and encourage future site development.1 This publication includes information about geothermal, biomass, solar and wind installations. EPA has identified current trends 30% in renewable energy development on contaminated lands including: of Sites • 417 renewable energy installations identified to date 91% • 91% of the installations are solar PV in MA Solar • 59% of the installations are located on former landfills • Massachusetts continues to lead the nation in siting solar on landfills and PV other sites with roughly 30% of all installations in the U.S. 6% • New York continues to be a top three state with renewable energy on Wind contaminated lands, including two wind installations totaling over 35 MW 417 Renewable Energy Projects, Over 1.8 Gigawatt Installed Capacity • Wyoming has the second most installed capacity out of the states with 16% of the total installed capacity, all of the capacity is from 5 wind installations. To date, the RE-Powering Initiative has identified 417 renewable energy installations on 390 contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites,2 with a cumulative installed capacity of 1,849.8 megawatts (MW). Approximately 69% 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. Technologies This document provides summary statistics and analyses regarding the types Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Wind of projects (e.g., system sizes, renewable energy technologies, energy uses) Multiple that have been completed on contaminated properties to date. At the end of Geothermal Biopower this document, EPA includes a project tracking list with basic information that Capacity (MW) is publicly reported about each known, completed installation. In addition to < 2 the completed sites listed in this document, EPA is actively tracking more than 2 - 5 5 - 20 150 renewable energy projects that are in various stages of planning, approval, 20 -35 or construction on contaminated properties. Examination of the information in > 35 this document may assist in the future planning for development of renewable energy installations. 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 October 2020 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. 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 Office of Land and Emergency Management 1 RE-POWERING AMERICA’S LAND INITIATIVE: PROJECT TRACKING MATRIX OCTOBER 2020 National Deployment Policy Matters RE-Powering has identified renewable energy installations on formerly contaminated The map below shows the impact of “RE-Powering” policies -- procurement lands, landfills, and mine sites in 45 U.S. states and territories. The location of requirements, financial incentives, and other state, local, or utility initiatives for these installations often reflects three factors: available renewable resources (e.g., renewable development of potentially contaminated lands.3 States with sunlight patterns, wind speeds); electricity prices; and incentives or other types of “RE-Powering” policies tend to have the largest numbers of installations. For example, policies. Policies can apply generally to renewable installations (e.g., Renewable Massachusetts has enhanced incentives for landfills and brownfields within its Solar Portfolio Standards) or can be specially designed to encourage renewable energy Renewable Energy Certificate and SMART programs and other well-established development on contaminated lands. policies to streamline redevelopment of these sites. In New Jersey, longstanding utility (PSE&G Solar 4 All) and state (subsection t) programs and policies have supported widespread development of solar on landfills and brownfields. Additional states such as Illinois have been implementing such policies more recently, with expectations of Number of RE-Powering Projects by State and Territory as of Octoberfuture increases 2020 in renewable installations on contaminated lands. 11 1 1 3 4 13 1 Massachusetts - 125 NUMBER OF RE-POWERING 1 35 4 Connecticut - 18 5 3 PROJECTS BY STATE Rhode Island - 10 2 10 2 1 AND TERRITORY 9 1 2 6 New Jersey - 60 22 9 AS OF OCTOBER 2020 1 4 Delaware - 3 1 2 3 Maryland - 10 5 5 2 2 1 1 3 States with RE-Powering Policy States with RE-Powering Projects 4 (# of Projects) States with No RE-Powering 3 Projects or Policy Virgin Islands - 4 Alaska Hawai'i 2 3 This includes policy related to procurement Puerto Rico requirements, financial incentives and state initiatives for development of contaminated lands Virgin Islands 2 Office of Communications, Partnerships, and Analysis Office of Land and Emergency Management RE-POWERING AMERICA’S LAND INITIATIVE: PROJECT TRACKING MATRIX OCTOBER 2020 Inside the Numbers NUMBER OF INSTALLATIONS INSTALLATIONS AND CAPACITY INSTALLATIONS AND CAPACITY 4 Based on current trends, 67% of the BY SITE TYPE BY RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGY BY ENERGY USE renewable energy systems identified Solar and wind projects on landfills/ 245 Installed Energy Installed in the tracking matrix sell power back landfill buffer Technology # Installations Capacity (MW) Production/Use # Installations Capacity (MW) to the grid as wholesale electricity, Renewable energy projects on 100 Solar Photovoltaic 381 1,150.5 Wholesale Electricity 279 1612.2 5 while another 22% provides energy via brownfield sites (PV) Onsite Use - General 46 120.7 community solar projects or for onsite Renewable energy projects on 71 Wind 24 634.2 Rooftop8 38 47.7 use. Systems range from utility-scale Superfund sites6 projects, such as 118.5 MW of wind on Biomass 5 65.1 Onsite Use - 26 12.5 a WY abandoned mine land, to smaller Renewable energy projects on 27 Green Remediation9 current/former federal facilities and Geothermal7 5 1 community-scale projects, such as the Community Owned/ 19 43.7 contaminated properties 0.2-MW community solar installation on Solar PV w/ Wind 1 <0.1 Subscription10 Renewable energy projects on RCRA 21 a Norwood, CO landfill. Unknown 8 12.5 corrective action sites Geothermal w/ 1 <0.1 RE-Powering capitalizes on the Solar PV Onsite Use – Training 1 0.5 opportunity to address contamination Renewable energy projects on 13 mine sites Total 417 1,849.8 Total 417 1,849.8 and support renewable energy implementation to achieve the associated economic and environmental benefits. Installations to date demonstrate the viability INSTALLATIONS AND CAPACITY 45 of projects across all EPA and state BY SITE OWNERSHIP TYPE remediation programs, from powering Ownership Installed States and industrial facilities at sites subject to Type # Installations Capacity (MW) RCRA corrective action to offsetting Municipal 205 443.0 Territories the energy demands at federal facilities Private 150 1,040.7 with ongoing cleanup activities to Unknown 22 102.5 repurposing brownfield and Superfund sites. Federal 21 169.3 4 Some installations can be considered multiple “site types.” For example, a Superfund site on a federal facility would be counted both as a Superfund site and as a federal facility for the purposes of this table; however, sites considered to be multiple site types are counted only Various 6 82.8 once when calculating the total number of sites (417 for October 2020). 5 Includes state brownfields. Non-Profit 5 7.5 6 Includes sites subject to the National Priorities List (NPL), non-NPL sites, and sites subject to removal action under Superfund. 7 One geothermal project, the Guthrie Green project in Tulsa, OK, uses a small solar array to power the geothermal heat pump. University 4 2.8 8 Rooftop installations cited in the Tracking Matrix represent projects on buildings that are sited on land identified as contaminated (primarily brownfields). State 2 0.9 9 Green remediation is the practice of considering all environmental effects of remedy implementation and incorporating options to minimize the environmental footprints of cleanup actions. One such practice is using renewable energy systems to power remediation activities Federal/ 1 0.2 or offset the energy needs associated with cleanup efforts. Projects identified as On-site Green Remediation