Get insight into how you can go from limbo lands to energy-generating stations in our online course designed by Dr. Mark P. Rossow, Ph.D., P.E. What's the potential for using “Limbo Lands” as sites for renewable energy generating stations? Limbo lands are underused and formerly contaminated sites including former Superfund sites, landfills, brownfields, abandoned mine lands, former industrial sites, and certain government installations. This online course describes how you can repurpose limbo lands to energy-generating stations. The types of limbo lands that are ready for redevelopment are covered as well as their feasibility with renewable energy technologies (RETs). In particular, this course discusses:

• Reasons for considering RETs (and which ones in particular) as a redevelopment option on limbo lands
• The geographic screening process
• High-potential limbo land sites for RET redevelopment
• Brownfields and abandoned mine lands as two specific types of limbo lands
• Conclusions and recommendations for transforming limbo lands to energy-generating stations

The material in this engineering, online, PDH-approved course is derived from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) document, “Converting Limbo Lands to Energy-Generating Stations: Renewable Energy Technologies on Underused, Formerly Contaminated Sites".

Learning Objectives

At the successful conclusion of this course, you’ll be able to identify and discuss:

• Reasons for considering RETS as a redevelopment option on limbo lands
• Process for geographic screening of limbo lands
• Identification of high-potential limbo lands for redevelopment using RETS
• Wind power considerations and resource availability
• Solar power
• Biomass
• Other types of limbo lands including brownfields and abandoned mine lands