CEP Renewables planning Ohio landfill solar installations

Solar energy construction and engineering firm CEP Renewables has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for what it calls solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for two landfill sites near Cleveland.

The Red Bank, New Jersey-based company is working in tandem with the government of Cuyahoga County in Ohio to find a qualified partner to build solar photovoltaic installations on top of two closed landfills.

The two sites are the City of Brooklyn Landfill in that Cleveland suburb and the Harvard Refuse Inc. Landfill in Garfield Heights, Ohio.

At the landfill in Brooklyn, CEP says a scheduled U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Pollution Reduction Grant grant will help fund a four-megawatt direct current solar array, which will be placed onto a 33-inch recompacted soil barrier layer with a 3-inch vegetative cover.

In Garfield Heights, an EPA grant could help fund a solar facility, although CEP says that landfill, which operated from about 1950 until the 2000s, “has never been properly closed” and currently has a two-foot soil cap.

CEP has site control for purposes of the CPRG at both locations, and says it must obtain formal competitive bids for any identified work that costs more than $250,000.

More information on the RFP and documents pertaining to it can be found on the CEP Renewables website. The firm is holding an online meeting about the RFP on June 25.