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A vacant landfill that for decades endangered and diminished Houston’s low-income Sunnyside neighborhood has gotten the green light for conversion into
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...
Former landfill to become largest US urban solar project Developers will build the 50 MW Sunnyside solar project on a former landfill site just outside of downtown Houston.From pv magazine USA A long-abandoned landfill site, located 8 miles south of downtown Houston, will soon become the largest urban solar farm in the United States. The 240-acre plot of land, located in Houston's Sunnyside neighborhood, has been approved for lease to a Wolfe Energy subsidiary by Mayor Sylvester Turner and the city council. Each acre will be leased for $1.00/year. The Sunnyside Solar Project will feature 50 M...
The City of Houston agreed to lease a vacant, 240-acre former landfill to an energy...
An overgrown forest peppered with trash and debris, located eight miles south of downtown Houston, will soon be transformed into largest urban solar farm in the U.S.