Solar Power Opportunities for Redevelopment and Low-Income Communities
This webinar will bring together speakers from NJIT's Technical Assistance to Brownfield Communities program, Rocky Mountain Institute, and NC Clean Energy Technology to discuss how to implement solar energy in the redevelopment of contaminated lands (brownfields) and in low-income communities. Audience members will walk away with a better understanding of the economic and workforce development opportunities offered by revitalizing brownfields with solar energy (brightfields) and an example of North Carolina's efforts to provide low-cost energy and workforce opportunities to low-income households via solar energy.
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PRESENTIONS
TITLE:Brownfields and their Economic and Energy Opportunities
- Speaker: Carrie Martin, Environmental Sustainability Planner, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Technical Assistance to Brownfield Communities (TAB)
- This presentation will focus on describing brownfields, their impacts on low-income communities, and provide case studies on how they have been transformed to provide low-cost distributed energy to revitalize communities.
- Key Resource: https://www.youtube.com/@community-systems/videos
TITLE: Brightfields opportunities and challenges
- Speaker: Tansy Massey-Green, Senior Associate, RMI
- Brightfields (or clean energy on brownfields) offer an exciting opportunity to revitalize contaminated sites, meet communities’ clean energy goals, develop a local clean energy workforce, and generate revenue for the community. They come with challenges unique to developing clean energy on contaminated lands, such as required clean up and special design considerations. This presentation will give you an overview of the opportunities, discuss the challenges, and discuss what RMI is doing to support communities in developing brightfields.
- Key Resource: https://rmi.org/us-program/brightfields-accelerator/
TITLE: Solar for All - Engagement plans for rural communities
- Speaker: Vincent Potter, Policy Project Manager, NC Clean Energy Technology Center
- Solar for All aims to reduce energy burdens in lower income communities by providing more access to solar electricity. The programs include single-family homes, multifamily dwellings, and community solar facilities to find the best balance of economics and access to reduce consumer costs for electricity.
- EnergizeNC.org, https://nccleantech.ncsu.edu/2023/06/22/resilient-reddi-communities-project-kicks-off/
SPEAKER BIOS
- Ms. Martin strives to create safe, vibrant, and resilient communities as an environmental planning professional. She currently serves as the subject matter expert on climate resiliency and sustainability at NJIT 's Technical Assistance to Brownfield Communities (TAB). TAB provides free technical assistance to state, regional, county, tribal, and local government entities and nonprofit organizations interested in learning about, identifying, assessing, cleaning up, and redeveloping brownfield sites in EPA Regions 2 & 4. Ms. Martin holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (M.C.R.P.) and a graduate certificate in Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She received her bachelor’s degree in public policy and environmental policy from William & Mary.
- Tansy Massey-Green is a Senior Associate on RMI’s Cities & Communities team at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), supporting RMI’s Brightfields Accelerator aimed at helping communities consider deploying clean energy in brownfields and closed landfills. She has supported cities in shaping their brightfield projects by identifying available funding, navigating utility engagement, and facilitating stakeholder engagement. She also manages the America’s Federal Funding Opportunities and Resources for Decarbonization (AFFORD) tool, designed to help subnational actors navigate federal funding and financing opportunities. Previously, Tansy worked on the America Is All In coalition at RMI, where she helped states, cities, businesses, and nonprofits understand and utilize clean energy tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act. Tansy has a double degree B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- Vincent Potter is a Policy Project Manager with the NC Clean Tech Center. Vincent's focus is on community solar programs, community energy resiliency, grid modernization, and decarbonization in the power sector. He researches policy changes of states and utilities in the mid-atlantic region for the Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIREUSA.org).
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