Many companies are finding ways to deploy solar energy on abandoned mine lands, former industrial sites, and other brownfields as utility-scale solar – the third largest source of renewable energy – continues to grow rapidly.
Known as “brightfields,” deploying solar energy on a brownfield enables a responsible form of industrial redevelopment and clean energy generation. A solar energy facility improves upon a site that would otherwise sit vacant.
Learn more about the challenges and opportunities of redeveloping brownfields with solar energy deployment in this fact sheet.
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