RE-Powering America’s Land

1. RE-Powering America’s Land FFLC Call August 28, 2013

2. RE-Powering America’s Land Encourages renewable energy development on current and formerly contaminated lands, landfills and mine sites when such development is aligned with the community's vision for the site. WIND SOLAR WIND SOLAR GEOTHERMAL BIOMASS

3. Why Renewables on Potentially Contaminated Lands Leverage existing infrastructure Build sustainable land development strategy Protect open space Provide low-cost, clean power to communities Improve project economics through reduced land costs & tax incentives Reduce project cycle times with streamlined zoning and permitting Gain community support

4. Types of Contaminated Sites • Superfund Sites • Other Federal CERCLA Sites • RCRA Corrective Action Sites • Federal Facilities • Mining Sites • Leaking Underground Storage Tank Sites • State Voluntary Cleanup Sites • MSW and Industrial Landfills • Brownfields Sites Photo Courtesy of Volkswagen America 4

5. RE-Powering America’s LandProjects installed nationwide Wind turbines installed during remediation at abandoned steel mill Wind turbines at former industrial site Concentrators installed on remediated mine tailings New York Wyoming New Mexico Solar array at former manufacturedgas plant Solar array at former foundry Solar array installed on landfill cap Solar geomembrane capping landfill Georgia Illinois Solar array at Superfund site Texas Colorado California Massachusetts

6. Project Tracking • RE-Powering Installations April 2013 216 MW total Installed 73 contaminated land, landfills, and mine sites 6

7. RE-Powering MapperGoogle Earth Overlay Mapped inventory of 66,000+ EPA and select state tracked sites (over 35 million acres of land). Screening based on: • Resource Availability • Acreage • Infrastructure (distance to transmission lines, graded roads) Incorporates data from: • EPA Cleanup and Landfill Programs • National Renewable Energy Lab • Wind, Solar, and Biomass Resources • Southern Methodist University and USGS • Geothermal • Department of Homeland Security • U.S. Highways • Railroads • Transmission Lines • Substations • State Agencies from CA, HI, NJ, NY, OR, PA, VA, and WV 7 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

8. RE-Powering MapperGoogle Earth Overlay 90 kW PV installed Geothermal Heat Pump Potential Biopower Potential Off-Grid PV Potential U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

9. RE-Powering MapperEPA Tracked Sites: Site-level information 9 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

10. RE-Powering MapperSites by Program

11. RE-Powering MapperRenewable Energy Potential - Nationwide > 185,000 renewable energy opportunities across all technologies and scales Renewable Energy Capacity Potential (GW) 5.7 TW max potential across all sites screening for solar PV, CSP, wind, and/or biopower 1,101 GW potential using 20% of 6.7 million acres; 1 MW / 6 acres • 7.5x US Renewable Energy Capacity • 146 GW, including hydro 2011 Renewable Energy Databook, NREL Notes: Number of sites and technologies included are those that could be estimated and that screened positively . Sites may screen well for multiple technologies. 11

12. Other Tools and Resources • Handbook for Siting RE Projects While Addressing Environmental Issues • Best Practices for Siting Solar PV on Landfills • Solar and Wind Decision Trees • NREL Feasibility Studies • Fact Sheets (Financial Considerations, Liability Issues, Success Stories) • National Maps of Screened Sites U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

13. RE-Powering America’s Land • Marc Thomas • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency • Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response • Center for Program Analysis • thomas.marc@epa.gov • 202-566-0791 • General inquiries • cleanenergy@epa.gov www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland