Project Objectives and Outcomes: The project pulled together a wide range of datasets to develop high-resolution datasets of solar resource availability. It also developed forward-looking solar resource
This report provides data and analysis of the land use associated with utility-scale ground-mounted solar facilities, defined as installations greater than 1 MW.
Like fossil fuel power plants, solar plant development requires some grading of land and clearing of vegetation. However, as utility-scale photovoltaics (PV) technology has improved over the last
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Published in the Journal of Environmental Management, the research tackles a critical but underexplored issue: how we measure the land footprint of utility-scale solar projects and what
to public understanding of the land use issues related to solar and wind power in the United States. Toward that end, it reviews over 100 academic studies and U.S. government reports th. t address
While there are potentially other ways (such as “agrivoltaics”) to mitigate the negative land-use impacts of utility-scale PV, the primary way to mitigate the inevitability of rising land costs is to minimize the
We develop a consistent, replicable framework to quantify land-solar interactions and apply it to annotated aerial imagery covering 719 solar photovoltaic projects (13,272 megawatts of...
Land use affects ecosystems, biodiversity, and geochemical cycles. It also affects people''s well-being due to effects on views, noise, recreation, and quality of life. This means strong and
Abstract—The rapid deployment of large numbers of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) plants in the United States, combined with heightened expectations of future deployment, has raised concerns about land
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