US EditionReactivate and WM Collaborate Nationwide to Convert Up to 50+ Landfills Into Solar Energy Sites
Reactivate and WM will convert over 50 landfills into solar and storage projects, creating jobs, energy savings, and boosting local tax revenues, with first projects by 2027.
- On Jan. 7, 2026, Reactivate, an Invenergy company, and WM, North America's leading provider of comprehensive environmental solutions, announced an agreement to convert up to 50+ former landfill sites into solar and storage projects.
- Amid a rising brownfields-to-solar movement, small-scale projects add to renewable momentum alongside utility growth, supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency RE‑Powering America’s Land initiative active as of November 2025.
- Reactivate will lead development, construction, ownership and operations, deploying community, commercial & industrial solar, energy storage and EV charging, consistent with its mission-driven model.
- By late 2027, the first phase aims to be commercially complete, with community solar projects designed to save local ratepayers and low-income households, as shown by the Acton 7.1-megawatt solar and storage project.
- Amid a recent federal policy shift, new private partnerships and alliances are emerging to support renewables as the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Office launched initiatives earlier this week.
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Reactivate and WM Collaborate Nationwide to Convert Up to 50+ Landfills into Solar Energy Sites
CHICAGO, Jan. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Reactivate, an Invenergy company, and WM, North America's leading provider of comprehensive environmental solutions, today announced an agreement with plans to transform up to 50+ former landfill sites into community solar, small utility scale…
WM will build solar on at least 50 former landfills
Waste Management (WM), a top disposal and environmental solution company in North America for over 50 years, has signed an agreement with Reactivate, an Invenergy company, to add solar and/or storage to at least 50 former landfill sites. Projects will be developed, constructed, owned and operated by Reactivate. “WM is committed to strengthening the communities where we live… The post WM will build solar on at least 50 former landfills appeared …
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