Region 2
Serving New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and Eight Tribal Nations.
Puerto Rico: Siting Solar Installations on Landfills
EPA's "RE-Powering America's Land" program encourages renewable energy development on current and formerly contaminated land and mine sites when it is aligned with the community's vision for the site. This initiative identifies the renewable energy potential of these sites and provides other useful resources for communities, developers, industry, state and local governments or anyone interested in reusing these sites for renewable energy development.
Specifically for Puerto Rico, siting solar installations on landfills seeks to reclaim and make useful, productive and income producing properties for the municipalities in which they reside.
The following materials are from the Solar Transaction Forum held on March 27, 2012:
- Final Agenda [PDF 22 KB, 1 pg]
- Mayors Invited [PDF 44 KB, 10 pp]
- Developers Invited [PDF 9 KB, 3 pp]
- Forum Attendees [PDF 32 KB, 2 pp]
- Photos - Municipal Landfills with Acreage [PDF 762 KB, 11 pp]
Developer Presentations:
- PV Navigator [PDF 2.6 MB, 21 pp]
- Renewable Energy Designs, Inc. [PDF 1 MB, 17 pp]
- Brightfields LLC [PDF 5.2 MB, 15 pp]
- Sonnedix PR [PDF 9 MB, 23 pp]
- Suniva [PDF 6.5 MB, 33 pp]
The following presentations are from the workshop held on November 1, 2011. Information from other workshops will also be posted as well as basic information related to siting solar on landfills.
- Feasibility Study of Solar Photovoltaics on Landfills in Puerto Rico [PDF 5.6 MB, 99 pp]
- Feasibility Study of Economics and Performance of Solar Photovoltaics in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico [PDF 4 MB,75 pp]
- Opening Remarks, Pedro Nieves [PDF 1.1 MB, 13 pp]
- Overview of Renewable Energy Resources, Ramón Torres and Vilma Ojeda [PDF 636 KB, 11 pp]
- Feasibility Study, James Salasovich [PDF 2.1 MB, 17 pp]
- Federal and Commonwealth Permitting and Legal Requirements, Edwin Irizarry and Héctor Vélez [PDF 1.4 MB, 27 pp]
- Solar Panels on Landfills, Maria Rodriguez Munoz [PDF 274 KB, 5 pp]
- Community Involvement, Brenda Reyes [PDF 1 MB, 22 pp]
- Power Purchase and Operating Agreements, Patricia Crumley [PDF 359 KB, 7 pp]
- Funding, Support, and Motivation for PV on Landfills in Puerto Rico, Tom Harris and Charlie Bartsch [PDF 474 KB, 45 pp]
- Financial Incentives and Strategies-Green Energy Fund, Erika Rivera [PDF 680 KB, 20 pp]
The following files are for use by municipalities in doing preliminary screening of sites and will be considered to be part of the Municipal Toolbox. Additional items will be added.
"Prepared" Workbook - Process for Risk Evaluation, Property Analysis and Reuse Decisions -- For Local Governments Considering the Reuse of Contaminated Properties
The following files are of general and research interest.
- Re-Powering Americas Land Presentation [PDF 2.6 MB, 17 pp]
- Repowering Land - Solar Power Initiative - PR Members [PDF 40 KB, 2 pp]