Report Provides Overview of Planning, Zoning Issues for Battery
A new report from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory provides an overview of battery energy storage systems from a land use perspective and describes the implications for zoning and
Our results highlight the fact that building solar farms over forests or through deforestation leads to no gain in energy efficiency compared to open land, and hence should only be carried out with great caution or completely discouraged. 1. Introduction
Governments should act now to mitigate the land competition between solar farms and forests and require technological innovation to place solar farms over deserts, abandoned mines, artificial canals, reservoirs, and rooftops, despite these sites being characterized by more scarce, more unstable, and more expensive solar energy.
Forests and solar energy are both critical to achieving the climate goals proposed by the Paris Agreement. However, large-scale deployment of solar farms requires vast land areas, potentially posing conflicts with other land uses. For example, solar farms have been built in forested regions or with a direct cost to forests (through deforestation).
Overall, our results suggest that the extent of land-use conflicts between solar farms and forests is small but widespread across the world. These results represent show how realization of climate mitigation targets through renewable energy may come at the cost of forests.
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