The Land Needs of Solar Energy. Solar energy appears pristine and untouched in its promise of clean power. However, to capture the sun's energy effectively, we need large tracts of land.

Source: California Energy Commission Presentation for SB 100 Land Use Workshop, 2024 One of the big challenges in increasing the pace of renewable development will be siting the facilities.

Republican lawmakers are pushing to launch a series of geothermal energy projects on federal land in the Southwest. GOP members of the House Committee on Natural Resources convened for a hearing ...

House bill would tax ag land used for renewable energy. By Jana Rose Schleis, KBIA; Feb 13 ... A Republican lawmaker is proposing to raise taxes on farmers who participate in wind or solar energy ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced Wednesday that more land in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming is needed to support rising demand for clean energy and to meet President ...

According to the study, the land taken up by golf courses in the 10 countries could install between 281 GW and 842 GW of utility-scale solar on 25% to 75% of the golf courses’ land area.

And while energy companies say the land can be restored after a solar farm is decommissioned, Hicks and Merkord disagree. Hicks worries about the precedent this sets for his Daphne Prairie.

Four nuclear energy companies will work with the university to bring reactors to Texas A&M-Rellis, the 2,400-acre tech innovation campus in Bryan. News Sports Hookem.com Austin360 Opinion ...

Officials at the federal Bureau of Land Management announced Aug. 29 they had finalized a plan to add Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Wyoming to its existing Western Solar Plan — an Obama ...

Plymyer cites the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s (CBF) estimate that 514 acres of protected land would be affected, and suggests that’s a drop in the bucket — just 0.027% of all protected land ...