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How solar on landfill works
- Solar farms can safely transform former landfills into sources of cheaper clean energy for consumers and generate revenue for communities.
- The land over a capped landfill has heavy usage restrictions1 and can often sit idle for years. Renewables can give new purpose to these sites.

1 Kim Slowey, "Land(fill) of opportunity: Why builders are turning dumps into new developments," Construction Dive, July 5, 2016.