U.S. EPA Renewable Energy Siting Database (RE-Powering), DRECP

This dataset contains information on the renewable energy potential of formerly contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites within the DRECP study area.

This dataset was created from the EPA RE-Powering Mapper dataset, downloaded from the EPA Re-Powering website on 12/02/2013.

Source: http://www.epa.gov/oswercpa/maps/REPowering_Screening_Shapefile.zip


Description

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) Center for Program Analysis (CPA) initiated the RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative to demonstrate the enormous potential that contaminated lands, landfills, and mine sites provide for developing renewable energy in the United States. EPA developed national level site screening criteria in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal facilities. While the screening criteria demonstrate the potential to reuse contaminated land for renewable energy facilities, the criteria and data are neither designed to identify the best sites for developing renewable energy nor all-inclusive. Therefore, more detailed, site-specific analysis is necessary to identify or prioritize the best sites for developing renewable energy facilities based on the technical and economic potential. Please note that these sites were only pre-screened for renewable energy potential. The sites were not evaluated for land use constraints or current on the ground conditions. Additional research and site-specific analysis are needed to verify viability for renewable energy potential at a given site.

Additional information can be found in the attached documents as well as on the EPA RE-Powering website:

http://www.epa.gov/oswercpa/index.htm

Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata.