Mitigation of land-related impacts of solar deployment in the European Union through land planning policies

Noelia Ferreras-Alonso, Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Alexandros Adam, Ignacio de Blas and Margarita Mediavilla

Energy, 2024, vol. 302, issue C

Abstract: Solar power is space-intensive and will contribute to intensify land competition, a factor typically not captured by models. This study uses the Integrated Assessment Model WILIAM which explicitly represents the land use changes driven by solar energy expansion through a hard link of its energy and land modules including net energy restrictions. A Green Growth type transition is simulated for the European Union with a high renewable energy share target in electricity mix by 2050, testing different land use planning policies.

Keywords: Integrated Assessment model (IAM); Solar energy; Sustainability; Land competition; System dynamics; Climate policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131617

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