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The City of Houston is planning to turn a landfill into a solar farm.

A rendering of the community solar project planned for the Sunnyside landfill in Houston.  Houston, home to nearly 4,600 energy-related firms, is making a big investment in solar. City officials are planning to turn a landfill in the Sunnyside neighborhood into a solar farm, a move positioned as an economic development initiative with equity at its core. Once completed it will be the largest brownfield solar installation in the U.S., according to city officials.  “The Sunnyside landfill has been one of Houston's biggest community challenges for decades, and I am proud we are one step clos...

Texas town to become home to largest urban solar farm in US “You could smell it,” said longtime Sunnyside resident Deatrice Cloud. Ms. Cloud is 100 years old and moved to the Sunnyside area in 1951 when she said the roads were unpaved and hardly anyone lived in the area. This historically Black neighborhood was home to a city-owned dump where residents could bring their garbage, which left the surrounding area with a foul odor and it drew the ire from those who lived nearby. It’s a short drive from Ms. Cloud’s home, the same one she moved into more than seven decades ago, to get to th...

Sunnyside to become home to largest urban solar farm in US KTRK Replay Video UP NEXT For 50 years, the landfill in the middle of Houston's Sunnyside community has sat empty and closed off to the public. "You could smell it," said longtime Sunnyside resident Deatrice Cloud. Ms. Cloud is 100 years old and moved to the Sunnyside area in 1951 when she said the roads were unpaved and hardly anyone lived in the area. This historically Black neighborhood was home to a city-owned dump where residents could bring their garbage, which left the surrounding area with a foul odor and it d...