When it comes to what to do with unusable, underutilized, and impaired properties like Brownfields, landfills, gravel pits, petroleum tank farms, parking lots, and the concrete slabs of old factory sites, one of the best options available today is to turn them into solar energy farms.
We know because we’ve done it, multiple times, on properties in cities and towns across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and New York—even Superfund-listed closed landfills where a critical consideration was to make sure the protective cap over contaminated materials could safely support the weight of racks of ballasted solar panels and the construction equipment to install them; as well as ensuring the protection and long-term maintenance of landfill monitoring infrastructure.
