What are the social impacts of displacement due to land acquisition for solar farms?

These utility-scale PV installations, often informally called solar farms (Fehrenbacher, 2016; New York State PV Trainers Network, 2017), are defined here to ... Jan 14, 2016 ... The utility-scale solar plant, a 27.5-megawatt project plant will provide electricity to an estimated 7700 households. Jul 19, 2023 ... All utility-scale solar project owners must register with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) by Nov. 1, 2025. Apr 25, 2024 ... While commercial and C&I solar projects are directly tied to meeting the energy needs of businesses and industrial operations, utility-scale ... Mar 24, 2022 ... Measurement of solar energy's impacts to wildlife has been limited to mortality caused by features of solar facilities, and has yet to include impacts from ... Jun 24, 2021 ... This fact sheet provides developers and landowners information about alternative vegetative cover strategies—including forage crops—that prevent ... Jun 29, 2020 ... We perform the first wind tunnel scaled solar farm experiments to investigate the potential for temperature reduction through system-level flow enhancement. May 7, 2021 ... This study investigates the spatial characteristics of existing utility-scale solar energy facilities in Virginia using GIS techniques. Nov 20, 2024 ... Researchers take a deep look at the interactions between habitat, pollinators, and solar energy production on three large working solar farms in Minnesota. This report explores trends in deployment, technology, capital and operating costs, capacity factors, the levelized cost of solar energy (LCOE), power purchase ...