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

By Paul Denholm, R. Margolis. 2008

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Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 1. Exploration of High-Penetration Renewable Electricity Futures (2012, background): “golf courses and major roads equal 10,000 km(2) and 49,000 km(2), respectively (Denholm and Margolis 2008).”
Assessing vulnerabilities and limits in the transition to renewable energies: Land requirements under 100% solar energy scenarios (2017, methodology): “%) is close to the upper range found by Denholm and Margolis [21] of 0.3–0.7%, while the differences with our higher bound (1.9”
Assessing current and future techno-economic potential of concentrated solar power and photovoltaic electricity generation (2015, background): “Obviously, the ability to generate utility-scale solar electricity also depends on the availability of (different types of) land [23,25,27,28].”
Emergence of highly transparent photovoltaics for distributed applications (2017, background): “The molecules were demonstrated in refs 31 (1), 32 (2), 103 (3), and 80 (4).”
The land use–climate change–energy nexus (2011, background): “Large-scale commercial solar farms are the current trend toward developing solar power in the United States, and the estimated solar-electric land-use requirement for the United States is significant: 181 m(2) per capita (Denholm and Margolis 2008).”