{"id":16046,"date":"2013-12-12T05:49:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T11:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=16046"},"modified":"2013-12-12T05:49:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T11:49:04","slug":"freshkills-park-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"From Smelly to Sun-Powered: Freshkills Park Will Be Site of NYC&#8217;s Largest Solar Array"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/freshkills-park-solar-array-rendering.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16047\" alt=\"freshkills park solar array artist rendering\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/freshkills-park-solar-array-rendering.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/freshkills-park-solar-array-rendering.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/freshkills-park-solar-array-rendering-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several years ago over at the Sundance Channel, I got to take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/park-features\/freshkills-park\">Freshkills Park<\/a> project, a planned 30-year effort to turn what was once the world&#8217;s largest landfill &#8211; Staten Island&#8217;s Fresh Kills &#8211; into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundancechannel.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/staten-islands-fresh-kills-landfill-undergoing-transformation-into-park\">New York City&#8217;s largest park<\/a>. Transforming a dump into recreational space is pretty green on the surface, but the plans for Freshkills call for <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2011\/07\/reforestation-projects\/\">renewal of natural habitat<\/a>, all certified green building, and, of course, use of renewable energy throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Mayor Bloomberg made a major announcement related to that last element of the project: St. Peters, MO-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunedison.com\/\">SunEdison<\/a> will partner with the city to <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2013\/11\/30\/nycs-largest-solar-power-plant-planned-cover-worlds-largest-landfill\/\">build a huge solar array<\/a> at the new park. Specifically, the company will lease 47 acres in the park space to build &#8220;two photovoltaic systems totaling up to 10 megawatts (MW) in size [that] will utilize between 30,000 and 35,000 high efficiency solar panels&#8230;&#8221; This installation will increase the city&#8217;s renewable energy capacity by 50%.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to start in 2015, the construction of the solar arrays will also contribute to the city&#8217;s goal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/planyc2030\/html\/theplan\/climate-change.shtml\">reducing greenhouse gas emissions 30% by 2030<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Big thinking going on in the Big Apple; proud to see a local company involved in this effort. Would love to hear from any of you on the ground in NYC: what are you hearing about the Freshkills project and its green features?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nycmayorsoffice\/11051953186\/in\/photostream\/\">New York City Mayor&#8217;s Office on flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago over at the Sundance Channel, I got to take a look at the Freshkills Park project, a planned 30-year effort to turn what was once the world&#8217;s&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":16047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6656,2634,6,6208],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Freshkills Park will Host NYC&#039;s Largest Solar Array<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Freshkills Park project aims to turn a landfill into green space. SunEdison will contribute by building the city&#039;s largest solar array in the park.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Freshkills Park will Host NYC&#039;s Largest Solar Array\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Freshkills Park project aims to turn a landfill into green space. SunEdison will contribute by building the city&#039;s largest solar array in the park.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sustainablog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-12T11:49:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/freshkills-park-solar-array-rendering.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"279\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#\/schema\/person\/9b578e764fdaeb0c31f2d565d3f02b30\"},\"headline\":\"From Smelly to Sun-Powered: Freshkills Park Will Be Site of NYC&#8217;s Largest Solar Array\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-12T11:49:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-12T11:49:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"freshkills park\",\"new york city\",\"solar\",\"sunedison\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Technology\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/\",\"name\":\"Freshkills Park will Host NYC's Largest Solar Array\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-12T11:49:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-12-12T11:49:04+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Freshkills Park project aims to turn a landfill into green space. SunEdison will contribute by building the city's largest solar array in the park.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"From Smelly to Sun-Powered: Freshkills Park Will Be Site of NYC&#8217;s Largest Solar Array\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/\",\"name\":\"Sustainablog\",\"description\":\"Since 2003, Sustainablog has been one of the pioneers of sustainability news online.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Sustainablog\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cropped-sblog-logo_3b.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cropped-sblog-logo_3b.jpg\",\"width\":200,\"height\":142,\"caption\":\"Sustainablog\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#\/schema\/person\/9b578e764fdaeb0c31f2d565d3f02b30\",\"name\":\"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/36b723ef9244464afe2e59d68b238a07?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/36b723ef9244464afe2e59d68b238a07?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg\"},\"description\":\"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg is the founder and editor of sustainablog. You can keep up with all of his writing at Facebook, and at Google+\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/author\/jeffmcintirestrasburg\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Freshkills Park will Host NYC's Largest Solar Array","description":"The Freshkills Park project aims to turn a landfill into green space. SunEdison will contribute by building the city's largest solar array in the park.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Freshkills Park will Host NYC's Largest Solar Array","og_description":"The Freshkills Park project aims to turn a landfill into green space. SunEdison will contribute by building the city's largest solar array in the park.","og_url":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/","og_site_name":"Sustainablog","article_published_time":"2013-12-12T11:49:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":279,"url":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/freshkills-park-solar-array-rendering.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/"},"author":{"name":"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg","@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#\/schema\/person\/9b578e764fdaeb0c31f2d565d3f02b30"},"headline":"From Smelly to Sun-Powered: Freshkills Park Will Be Site of NYC&#8217;s Largest Solar Array","datePublished":"2013-12-12T11:49:04+00:00","dateModified":"2013-12-12T11:49:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/"},"wordCount":244,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#organization"},"keywords":["freshkills park","new york city","solar","sunedison"],"articleSection":["Technology"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/","url":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/","name":"Freshkills Park will Host NYC's Largest Solar Array","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-12-12T11:49:04+00:00","dateModified":"2013-12-12T11:49:04+00:00","description":"The Freshkills Park project aims to turn a landfill into green space. SunEdison will contribute by building the city's largest solar array in the park.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/freshkills-park-solar\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"From Smelly to Sun-Powered: Freshkills Park Will Be Site of NYC&#8217;s Largest Solar Array"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/","name":"Sustainablog","description":"Since 2003, Sustainablog has been one of the pioneers of sustainability news online.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#organization","name":"Sustainablog","url":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cropped-sblog-logo_3b.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cropped-sblog-logo_3b.jpg","width":200,"height":142,"caption":"Sustainablog"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#\/schema\/person\/9b578e764fdaeb0c31f2d565d3f02b30","name":"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/36b723ef9244464afe2e59d68b238a07?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/36b723ef9244464afe2e59d68b238a07?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg"},"description":"Jeff McIntire-Strasburg is the founder and editor of sustainablog. You can keep up with all of his writing at Facebook, and at Google+","sameAs":["https:\/\/sustainablog.org"],"url":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/author\/jeffmcintirestrasburg\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}