However, installing solar energy systems on land that has marginal agricultural value or integrating solar energy systems on farms may provide a variety of economic and environmental benefits to farmers.
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has released a proposed plan to expand the number and scope of utility-scale solar energy projects on public lands to add 9 million acres in five
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The Bureau of Land Management is announcing approval of the 600-megawatt Jove Solar Project, which could generate enough clean energy to power roughly 180,000 homes annually.
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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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Large expanses of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in states like California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico are suitable for utility solar photovoltaic energy, like
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The USPVDB is a detailed and comprehensive dataset of ground-mounted large-scale solar (LSS) photovoltaic energy facility locations and their attributes in the United States. The data
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BLM''s preferred alternative in the draft PEIS offers 22 million acres for new PV project applications, striking a balance between accelerating solar development and protecting critical
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• 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
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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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Federal laws have been passed by Congress to establish requirements for the Bureau of Land Management and/or the Department of Energy to facilitate solar energy development on public lands.
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