Posted on May 7, 2010 by George von Stamwitz
It has always amused me how many people are involved with Brownfields work as compared to how few projects have been completed. It is tough to make the economics work on a Brownfield development in the best of times. Thanks to clean energy rules and incentives this may be changing.
Brownfields and clean energy have several synergies. Brownfields are often in industrial corridors, with great infrastructure and proximity to electrical grids. Biomass projects in particular need access to efficient transportation networks in order to move large volumes of material. Clean energy projects such as solar, wind and biomass plants work well with
Add to these synergies a vast array of incentives, mandatory quotas
Tags: Brownfields, CERCLA, Energy, RCRA, clean energy