Growing Solar, Protecting Nature

Oct 6, 2024 | Industrial Solar, Solar

The where and how of the solar projects placement is critical. When forests and agricultural lands are lost, the valuable services they provide like clean air, clean water, flood protection, and carbon capture also go missing.

Harvard Forest and Mass Audubon present a path forward in their report “Growing Solar, Protecting Nature”. Their report shows how we CAN have both solar and nature. They look at three different models for increasing solar power. Amazingly all three models result in the same number of solar panels being deployed and meet long range renewable energy goals. Yet these models have enormous differences on impacts to nature, forests, and working lands. Protecting nature boasts the added benefits of natural carbon removal, flood protection, drinking water filtration, wildlife habitat, and local food production.

We must save our forests and working lands by putting large-scale solar projects in the built-world. Places like parking lots, rooftops, brownfields, and already-developed lands.

Click here for the full article: Growing Solar, Protecting Nature

Harvard Forest and Mass Audubon also have their own press release statements.

 

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