Solar container battery land use indicators

Are ground-mounted solar PV arrays co-located with agriculture in the CCV?

We used remotely sensed imagery of existing solar PV arrays and geographic information system (GIS) datasets to develop a comprehensive and publicly available dataset of ground-mounted arrays co-located with agriculture in the CCV through 2018.

Does land use for solar energy compete with other land uses?

Based on the spatially defined LUE of solar energy, as well as the identified potential for solar energy in urban areas, deserts and dry scrublands, land use for solar energy competes with other land uses through the inherent relative profitability of each land use.

Can solar PV & agricultural land use co-location improve landscape productivity?

Competition between solar PV and agricultural land uses has led to various co-location methods where installations are sited, designed and managed to optimize landscape productivity across a wide range of ecological and anthropogenic services 7.

What is a solar energy-land metric?

The metric may document either the total amount of land altered from a reference state, or the land occupied by solar energy-related infrastructure. Solar energy-land metrics may also embody the duration of occupation of the solar energy-related infrastructure (Fthenakis and Kim, 2009).

What metric is used to measure solar energy production?

The most frequently used metric is utility-scale solar footprint with the unit m 2 /capita (Table 1, Figure 5). Most human population-based metrics that we identified in this study consider local energy demand, local irradiance and climatic conditions, and annual solar energy generation as a function of land area (Denholm and Margolis, 2008).

Is solar energy a good option for land use?

However, recent studies based on satellite views of utility-scale solar energy (USSE) under operation, either in the form of photovoltaics (PV) or concentrated solar power (CSP), show that their land use efficiency (LUE) is up to six times lower than initial estimates 17, 18, 19.