An Ohio City Uses the Sun to Revive a Brownfield and Power Its Treatment Plant

A solar array helps an Ohio city power its wastewater treatment plant, lock in electricity savings, and restore a brownfield site to productive use.
An Ohio City Uses the Sun to Revive a Brownfield and Power Its Treatment Plant
The supports for the solar panels are anchored by concrete disks, poured in place, so that the cap on the brownfield site did not need to be penetrated.

The wastewater treatment plant in the Ohio city of Newark played a key role in putting a contaminated former industrial site to use.

Once home to an aluminum processing plant, the site was subject to severe restrictions, even after remediation. Eventually, American Electric...

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