By the middle of 2022, China's installed capacity of PV has reached 336GW . Given the current average land use footprint of 35 W/m 2 and a goal to build 5000 GW solar PV by 2050, the land required for PV installation will be 1.43 × 10 5 km 2, close to the area of Liaoning Province.
Despite addressing contemporary energy and environmental dilemmas, solar energy still faces challenges related to land utilization . The expansive deployment of PV panels has intensified the competition for land resources, particularly in western China.
According to the land use policy in China, unused lands, such as deserts, gobi, and wastelands, were considered most suitable for constructing PV solar farms. Using unused lands such as Gobi, desert and wasteland to build PV plants can reduce the construction cost of photovoltaic projects and improve the economy.
Since then, suitability evaluation has become widely used in the site selection process for various construction projects. Specifically, the aim of evaluating potential construction areas (PCAs) for PV solar farms involves analyzing various parameters to ascertain their suitability for renewable energy development.
To address the challenges associated with grid integration costs and land consolidation in the site selection of large-scale PV power plants, this study proposes an innovative three-stage
In this paper we developed an integrated solar power potential assessment framework to quantify the gap between technical potential and actual generation of solar PV farms on national,
Our findings highlight the need for policies that ensure photovoltaic developments are compatible with environmental conservation and land preservation. The deployment of solar energy
As China races to meet its 2060 carbon neutrality pledge, solar land acquisition standards have emerged as a critical bottleneck. The recent 12 GW photovoltaic project in Tibet – now Asia''s largest
By incorporating solar radiation and PV generation data from 2000 to 2020, the study assesses the regional suitability of PV power generation in China in 2020.
China is standardizing the management of project land use to ensure the availability of unused land and desert regions for the construction of large-scale solar PV projects in the country
Specifically, to assess a solar installation''s technical potential, hourly meteorological reanalysis data is adopted and the power generation-related parameters are calculated (i.e. optimal panel tilt, array
There is considerable potential for solar-powered energy service provision in Nigeria"s rural communities, in form of solar photovoltaic (PV) or solar thermal power.
The Notice explicitly prohibits the utilization of arable land for photovoltaic arrays and establishes distinct requirements for land utilization involving non-arable agricultural land, forest land,
In western China, extensive land resources coexist with a fragile ecological environment. To this end, we propose a PV siting framework based on policy restrictions and construction suitability.
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