Our Part

To help equitably deploy and accelerate the transition to clean renewable energy in Illinois. There are tremendous opportunities for distributed generation (on-site solar) and adaptive re-use of Brownfield sites (contaminated sites) for clean-renewable energy.

Our goal is to partner with corporate America, community intermediaries, educational institutions, federal and local governments in accelerating the transition to clean renewable energy, with emphasis on Disadvantaged, Underserved and or Communities of Color and their institutions. Consider the following:

1. A new report by Environment America says there are more than 450,000
warehouses in America. In total, they have nearly 16.4 billion square feet of
rooftop space that could be used for solar systems. The rooftops of
American warehouses built before 2019 have the potential to generate
185.6 terawatt-hours of solar electricity each year, enough to power almost
19.4 million average homes. California, Florida, Illinois, Texas, and Georgia
have the largest warehouse solar generation potential; and

2. Using renewable energy criteria developed in collaboration with the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), EPA has pre-screened over
190,000 sites for their renewable energy potential. As part of this effort, EPA
collaborated with state agencies from California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Site screening was performed in August 2021 (RE-Powering America’s Land |
US EPA)

Given this huge opportunity, our goal is to partner with corporate America, energy
funds, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), and operating and
maintenance (OE) companies in equitably deploying clean-renewable energy: