EPA Offers Free Solar & Wind Tools to Tap into Gigawatts of Energy

 By Andrew Burger | May 1st, 2012 

There are more than 490,000 potentially contaminated properties covering some 15 million acres of land across the US. Aiming to help local communities and landowners make good use of them, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Renewable Energy (NREL) launched a set of tools that enable communities and landowners to evaluate contaminated and underutilized properties’ renewable energy potential.

Eliminating the need for expensive technical expertise, the EPA/NREL’s solar and wind decision trees bring together and combine expert renewable energy knowledge and decision-tree project evaluation processes decision trees by providing a decision-making blueprint for evaluating sites’ renewable energy potential.