Land-use requirements and the per-capita solar footprint for photovoltaic generation in the United States

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3531-3543

  Denholm, Paul ^a   Margolis, Robert M ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological footprint; Land use; Solar photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; LAND USE; POWER GENERATION;

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; END USES; LAND AREAS; PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS; UNITED STATES;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ETHANOL; LAND USE CHANGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 48949083839     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.05.035     Document Type: Article

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